The Raja-Joosep cabin was closed to the public five years ago because in the 1980s, telephone poles containing a harmful anticorrosive substance were used in the renovation.
Metsähallitus Nature Services has completed the restoration of the Raja-Joosep cabin in the Urho Kekkonen National Park in Inari. The hut has been opened to the public after a break of more than five years.
The Raja-Joosep hut was closed to the public five years ago because of the use of telephone poles in the 1980s, which, according to current information, contained the health-damaging anticorrosive creosote.
Joseph’s cabin and sauna underwent extensive log repairs, as well as repairs to the clay and peat roofs, windows and the cellar under the cabin floor.
A digger had to be used on the slope
The buildings had to be excavated with an excavator because they are built on a slope. The logs in contact with the ground had reached a very poor condition.
However, excavation work at the Raja-Joosep field was minimized because there is endangered vegetation on the site.
– Excavation work was minimized and people moved and worked around the buildings under the protection of various protective fabrics and sheets, which were always removed when the work was finished. In addition, the vegetation of the areas to be excavated was removed, preserved and returned to its place when the restoration work was completed, says Peuraniemi.
History from over a hundred years ago
You can now visit the cabins, but you can’t stay overnight in them, and you can’t put fire in the fireplaces. In order to protect buildings and endangered vegetation, there is also a ban on camping and making fires on the entire field.
It is also worth remembering that the boundary zone starts at the edge of the fenced field, and movement is not allowed there.
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