There are four sites to be protected, one of which has been found to contain a nationally protected laho beaver frog.
The municipality of Janakkala offers more than 50 hectares of forest for protection under the METSO programme. The technical committee decided on Tuesday that the municipality will submit an application for protection to the Häme Environment Agency.
The application concerns the areas of Pukalinkallio, Luuliovuori, Laurinmäki and Saparonniemi, which would be protected as permanent nature reserves, with the properties remaining the property of the municipality. In practice, the areas would become private nature reserves that could be used for recreation, sports and nature activities.
In Janakkala, potential METSO sites in the municipal forests of Leppäkoski Rahitus, Tarinmaa-Räikälä-Laurinmäki area, Tervakoski Luulionvuori area and the area east of Lake Mallinkaistenjärvi have been inventoried already in summer 2020.
In addition, in the summer of 2021, the Pukalinkallio forest area in the Tervakoski settlement was inventoried. Based on the inventories, the Häme ely center has already protected the Rahitu area.
Protection leads to loss of logging revenue
If the areas are protected in the METSO program, during the years 2023–2025, the loss of logging income will be approximately EUR 137,000 for Pukalinkallio, Luuliovuori and Laurinmäki, and approximately EUR 35,000 for Saparonniemi.
According to the presentation text of the Technical Board, when assessing the loss of income, it should be taken into account that the areas are not purely economic forests, and it would be possible or reasonable to maximize the logging income.
The amount of compensation for the forests offered for protection will only be known when the protection proposal progresses from the Häme ely center to the Ministry of the Environment.
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