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    • ]]>     Estonia is a forest country. Half of the land territory of Estonia is covered with forests.
    About the half of Estonian forests belong to the governmental profit-making institution called RMK(State forest management centre), which means that on the one hand, RMK has to earn income for the state by logging and selling wood material.
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    On the other hand, RMK has tasks that do not bring direct economic income, but that are useful for all of us: maintaining the unique forest nature, nature friendly forest works, creation of free recreation possibilities.

    The predominant majority of Estonian forests are softwood forests, but there are also hardwood forests. At the present are able to naturally (without human intervention), however, constitute only a spruce forests and pine and birch is temporary.

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    Human interference in the end replaced by conifer forest. Around 5,000 years ago, are widely distributed broad-leaved forests are now very few remaining.

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