The Swedish forestry model is mainly shaped by the country ́s natural conditions and constraints, its history, the knowledge and experience of the forest owners and the tradition of consensus policies based on mutual respect, understanding and compromise.. Only three per cent of the country's land surface is built on or landscaped, and 70 per cent is covered by forest, making Sweden Europe's most forested country. Sweden's forests are also growing well. Today, the country's forests contain twice as much wood as they did 100 years ago.
A forest in Dalarna Sweden is covered by 68% forest. [1] In southern Sweden, human interventions started to have a significant impact on broadleaved forests around 2000 years ago, where the first evidence of extensive agriculture has been found. [2] Recent studies describe a long-term process of borealization in south-central Sweden starting at the beginning of the Holocene where oak (Quercus.. An old documentary of Swedish forest-finns clearing land in the woods with slash and burn agriculture. The forest finns migrated to Sweden and Norway during the 18th and 17th century after.