Matti Linkola 
Metsä kulttuurimaisemana.
Linkola M. (1987). Metsä kulttuurimaisemana. Silva Fennica vol. 21 no. 4 article id 5326. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.a15483
English title: The forest as a cultural landscapeAbstract
The main features of the Finnish landscape are a result of preglacial erosion processes and the structural lines of the bedrock. The microstructure of the landscape was created by the Ice Age and its melting processes. Upon this base, human activities have created a palimpsest of cultural landscapes. The article describes the effects of slash-and-burn cultivation, tar production, cattle ranging and some other forest uses to the forest landscape.
The paper is based on a lecture given in the seminar ‘The forest as a Finnish cultural entity’, held in Helsinki in 1986. The PDF includes a summary in English.
Original keywords
kaskiviljely;
asutus;
metsämaisema;
kulttuurimaisema;
metsälaidunnus
English keywords
forest landscape;
cultural landscape;
slash-and-burn cultivation;
land occupation;
forest grazing
Published in 1987
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