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If a stand falls inside a specially protected area, Natura 2000 or a microreserve and logging there is restricted, the owner is entitled to an annual compensation — between €52 and €196 per hectare depending on how strict the ban is. Here are the current rates, the two application routes, the deadlines, and how to check your own property.
This summer a LAD round opens in which the state covers 60–100% of the cost of young-stand thinning, afforestation and restoration. The application window is short — 15 July to 17 August. We look at the per-hectare rates, the main conditions, and how this co-financing changes the tending bill for buyers and owners.
Without a valid forest inventory you cannot fell, cannot apply for support, and cannot reliably value the forest. It lasts 20 years, but in practice the data ages faster. Here is when an inventory must be renewed, what it costs, and why its year is the first thing to check before a deal.
The familiar narrative of a roughly even state-versus-private split does not match the VMD data. Measured by forest compartments, private ownership outweighs the state by a factor of 2.17. Within the private sector, concentration is extreme: the top 1% of owners hold 44% of the area. We break down ownership across 276,011 cadastres.
On the Latvian private forest market, every second unprepared buyer falls into at least one pitfall: overpays, inherits someone else's obligations, loses access. Ten concrete categories of risk with instructions on where to find them before signing.
