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A forest reaches the saw in one of two ways: it hits the statutory felling age, or it hits the felling diameter. This guide lays out the age table by species, explains the diameter route, and why the pine 30 / spruce 26 / birch 25 cm figures you find online were struck down in 2024 — and how to check whether a specific stand can be felled now.
99,489 ha of mature spruce in Latvia's private forests sit inside the bark beetle's working range. Regional damage rates differ by 4.6×. What VMD data shows and what owners need to do before spring.
A VMD record for a single compartment carries more than 25 cryptic short-coded fields. Without a key, the document is unreadable. This guide walks through a real example — cadastre 62720050379 in Padures parish — and shows how those codes turn into a euro figure.
The calculator shows €100,000 standing, the buyer offers €58,000, and both are right. The gap between a theoretical valuation and a real transaction price is five concrete discounts. We break down each one with real numbers from a VMD sample.
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.
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.
In a single year coniferous pulpwood rose by almost half while birch veneer logs dropped 18%. The 'price of timber' is not one number — it is a basket of assortments. Here is what is rising in 2026, what is falling, and how to tell whether it is a good moment for your stand.
After the largest forest-land deal in Latvian history, IKEA-linked Ingka Investments now holds about 230,000 ha of Latvian forest. Separately, Inter IKEA bought roughly 24,000 ha in the Baltics. Here is what happened and what it actually changes for buyers and sellers.
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.
Textbooks say plant pine. Real VMD data on 117,000 mature private stands tells a different story: black alder on a 50-year rotation delivers the best NPV thanks to its short cycle, and pine only pays off in central Latvia and Kurzeme. A species-by-species breakdown of return per hectare.
