AbstractSyftet med denna studie var att undersöka:Om delägarna i Älvdalens Besparingsskog röjer sin ungskog i större omfattning än andra skogsägare i Sverige.Hur delägarna i Älvdalens Besparingsskog utnyttjar sina skogsbruksplaner.Hur entreprenörerna får sina uppdrag.Studien genomfördes som dokument-och litteraturstudier, enkät samt personliga intervjuer.Röjningsfrekvensen i Sverige år 2012 var 18,4 procent av röjningsbehovet, enligt Riksskogstaxeringen.Skogsvårdsaktiviteten i Älvdalens socken är sannolikt högre än i landet i övrigt.Enkäten visar att endast cirka 38 procent av delägarna i Älvdalens besparingsskog konsulterar sin skogsbruksplan när beslut skall tas angående röjning.Skogsbruksplanerna används i liten omfattning.Entreprenörerna får sina uppdrag till cirka 80 till 90 procent genom att skogägarna kontaktar entreprenören.Cirka 80 till 85 procent av röjningsarbetet görs av entreprenörer med en ökande trend.Ungskogsröjning, Älvdalens Besparingsskog, skogsbruksplan, entreprenörer.

Orsa Besparingsskog has an aim to take nature considerations in relation to the harvested volume and area of the annual felling. Around 15 percent of the acreage and 10 percent of the volume should be set aside. It is important to keep close to those figures to avoid future negative effects on the long-term harvesting planning. The purpose of this study was to use laser scanning data to estimate those proportions. The result showed that the proportion of conservation considerations in the ten selected objects in the study was significantly higher than the target of 15 percent of the acreage and 10 percent of the volume. The result showed a setting aside of 19 percent of the acreage and 17 percent of the volume.

The main purpose with this study was to investigate whether the tree growth differs or not in prescribed burnt areas compared to mechanically scarified. Together with the result from the main purpose, answers of whether it's possible or not to combine nature conservation with tree production in prescribed burnt areas was presented. In these areas the regeneration were analyzed to see if there was enough tree plants to comply with the Swedish Forestry Act regulations terms for approved regeneration. A field survey was conducted at 6 objects, three objects for prescribed burning and three for mechanically scarification. All objects were planted within the same year.

The purpose of Älvdalens besparingsskog is to develop the district and most of all the forestry in Älvdalen. It's owned by about 2 300 private forest owners who's landed properties are located in Älvdalen. Every year the besparingsskogen gives out a lot of its profit in form different types of subsidies for agriculture and forestry. The owners can apply for subsidies for several of the costs that occur in forestry. During the period 2000-2003 the owners are offered forest management plans and pcSKOG-gård at no cost for their private forest properties. The purpose of this master's thesis was to find out if the activity in the forestry changed when the forest owners got new forest management plans and the computer program pcSKOG-gård.

In this work I have tried to reconstruct the forest history within Särna-Idre forest common in northern Dalarna from the 19th century until present time. The Särna-Idre region has been an extensively used landscape for a long time. Pollen which indicates grazing has been found in samples orginating from the 10th century. Early travellers from the 18th and 19th centuries seem to have been passing trough a "used" landscape. Burned forests on naked ground are described as common. Also large areas are mentioned as undisturbed with lots of large trees, snags and dead wood.