Ecowood is used to produce guidelines for wood harvesting on sensitive sites

An ecological and efficient wood harvesting means logging, where both the values of nature in forest and the efficiency in logging have duly been considered. This means, for instance, leaving of certain sensitive sites entirely outside the operation area and doing of the work otherwise by methods protecting or maintaining the values of nature. University of Helsinki is participating in an by EU –financed research project ECOWOOD, where guidelines for an ecological and efficient work on sensitive forest sites will be produced. In Finland such sensitive sites are especially the forest areas with a low bearing capacity having a high risk to a rut formation. In European scale even the mountainous areas and other steep slopes susceptible to erosion will be covered