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Forestry statistics – BNFSG 2013

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Forestry statistics - resources

• Statistics Norway is main producer of forestry statistics• 3 persons work on this field

– Almost 1,5 man-labour years in 2013– No room for time-consuming development work

• Decreasing resources in 2014

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LEAN and standardisation

• In 2014, LEAN will be a priority area in Statistics Norway• Lean is centered on preserving value with less work

– creation of value for the end customer – elimination of waste – flow

• We will take in use a newstandard system for editing and correcting register data

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What is the result of new property data

• The number of forest properties increased – Mostly small properties – Mostly from the northern and western part of Norway– Mostly broad-leaved forest

• New and better statistics on areas – Total property area for the first time– Productive forest and unproductive forest area (forest)– Other area categories (inland water, wetland, open firm ground etc)– Main species of tree (conifer, broad-leaved, mixed)

• Better data on type of owner

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New figures on forest properties. 2012

  Forest properties Productive forest area, 1000 ha

Unproductive forest area, 1000 ha

In total 129 101 70 25 35 89

Individual owner 125 462 56 39 22 13

Other private owners 1 429 3 25 6 78

Government 746 6 33 5 78

Local government 528 2 18 55

Common forests 65 1 82 36

Other 871 28 28

+ 10000

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Productive forest area by type of owner. Norway 2012

80%

5%

9%

3% 3%

Individual owner

Other private

Government

Local governe-mentCommon forests

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The share of properties with commercial roundwood removals. 2003-2012. Co-ownership and the remainder

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Further challenges - forest properties

• Forest area not connected to a certain property (170 000 ha productive forest, 370 000 ha unproductive forest)

• Site quality - low quality in the northern counties – Too small area of productive forest

• Updating of digital maps– Each municipality is responsible

• Quality of inland water on property level is still poor– Boundaries not clear

• 4,9 million ha of wetland, bare rock and open firm ground has no certain owner in the cadastre

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Other issues

• Why have only 2 in 5 forest properties cut for sale during the last 15 years?

• Cooperation with Norwegian University of Life Sciences– Postal sample survey to 3 000 individual forest owners

1 500 without commercial removal the last 15 years 1 500 with commercial removal the last 15 years

– The main objective is to find out why a majority of forest owners have not cut roundwood for sale during the last 15 years

– What action must be done to make them active? Prices Use of policy instruments Information and advisory service Etc.

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Other issues

In Norway: Annual increment in productive forest 23 mill m3Annual roundwood removal: 11 mill m3

The government want to increase annual removal.Where should this increased harvesting take place?

We plan to do an analysis of annual increment vs harvesting – by species of tree– by regional level

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GIS-analyses – some issues

• Distance to forest roads– Productive forest area– Average distance– Maximum distance

• Strips of field at forestry properties– number – distance between

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Strips of field at forestry properties -number and distance between