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Do not damage heritage sites on the thinning track

Habitat	Function	Type of work
Forest	Cultural	Thinning

The heritage culture is the visible signs of the way of life of previous generations left on the landscape. Heritage sites in the forest include: cairns, graves, cairns, stone fences, ruins and foundations of buildings, historic cross-trees, ditches, forest huts.

Description of the action

Do not damage cultural monuments or heritage sites. Remove branches, stumps and undergrowth from trenches, sacrificial stones and cairns. Do not drive forestry machinery on the mound or on the cairn. Leave historic cross trees to grow.

Why?

Damage to cultural monuments and heritage sites is neither ethical nor aesthetic.

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