Greetings from an old-growth forest

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Greetings from an old-growth forest

We hope that you have had the opportunity to enjoy some nice, restful days. At Naturarvet , the summer has offered a fantastic visit to Klingervattskogen, some technical maintenance on the website and new exciting contacts that we hope can generate the acquisition of more old-growth forests.

In this newsletter you can read more about our visit to Klingervatt Forest, and it is no wonder that it is so lovely to walk in an old-growth forest. According to Ann Dolling, a researcher at SLU Forest and Health, we humans feel best in really old, untouched forests. Read more about it.

In this newsletter you will also have the opportunity to get to know the special scent tick. A so-called signal species that tells you that the forest you are walking in is probably an old-growth forest with high natural values.

Report from the Klingervatt Forest

This summer we visited our most recently acquired old-growth forest: Klingervattskogen. A mountainous old-growth forest of 117 ha located north of Östersund in Krokum municipality, Jämtland. In the middle of summer it is so beautiful, quiet and still. Only a gentle rain fell on summer-warm cheeks and a warbler and a kingfisher were heard chirping [...]

We thrive on ancient forests

Old-growth forests are not only good for carbon sequestration and biodiversity. Old and large trees are also best for human health. This is shown by exciting research from SLU Forest and Health. Ann Dolling, a researcher at SLU Forest and Health, explains that they selected five different forest environments with trees of varying age and [...]

The scent stick - an anise-scented treasure in the ancient forest

There are mushrooms that you have to look for with your eyes, and then there are mushrooms that reveal themselves with your nose. The scented tick, Haploporus odorus, belongs to the latter category. It spreads a sweet, spicy aniseed scent that can be felt long before it is detected on the tree trunk. The fruiting body itself is white-gray, tough and often several relatively large, but [...]