Road problems

The heavy machines and large timber trucks together with the very wet weather have made the roads a bit difficult to navigate. Despite big efforts of those responsible for the maintenance of the road some sections are almost impossible for smaller cars to pass. One might wonder what they will look like next spring?

Deforestation and wild animals

One might think that the big machines and the totally changed forest had made all wild animals run away as far as they could but that is not the case at all. Maybe they know that the area next year will be a haven for them with lots of small trees and bushes that taste great.

Moose

Wild pig

Heaps of twigs, timber and more

The disforestation in Svångemåla is soon finished and it is interesting to see how everything has now been gathered and labeled. Even the cut off branches are put together in several huge heaps of twigs that soon will be cut up into very small pieces and made into fuel for heating up houses and water in our cities.

Most of the wood will be used for making paper (massaved) or timber (timmer) but the aspen trees will be matches (tändstickor).

Garbage

Many think that the destruction of nature that can be seen today is a new phenomenon but that is not the case at all. You just have to walk around in old settlements like Svångemåla to find all kinds of things that have been dumped without any considerations regarding neither animals nor humans. When I put up the electric fence, just outside the stone wall that marks the borders of my plot, I found a lot of old bottles, buckets,  two stoves, an old bicycle etc. They were covered by old leaves and moss but still dangerous to step on. It took just an hour to gather this heap of old junk that will go to the dump next year.