Mon, 02 Mar, 2015 12:05:59 AM FTimes – STT Report, Mar 02  Photo – Lehtikva. State enterprise Metsähallitus has been for a long time taking a large chunk of the wood energy harvested from Rovajärvi shooting range.
Metsähallitus, the body which administers huge tracks of state-owned land and water areas, harvested wood from the artillery practice range located in Rovaniemi.
The harvested wood from the shooting range are deemed usable only because of the fragments.
Before harvesting begins, the area is first inspected for undetonated explosives.
"On average about ten explosives are discovered annually. Every explosive is of course too much," said Samuli Ollila, Team Supervisor at Metsähallitus in Central Lapland.
Ollila explained that areas where ammunition are discovered are marked, and then experts from the army detonate or transfer them to another location.
The importance of the shooting at a wood energy harvesting site is, however, slowly fading because the army is largely using old targets for practice.
Nearly 100,000 cubic metres of wood energy are harvested from state-owned forests in Lapland of which about a third of all harvested wood was obtained from Rovajärvi.
So far, between 10,000 and 20,000 cubic metres of wood have been harvested, and in the future, the number is seemingly on the decline.
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