The Swedish Forest Agency's ongoing inventory shows preliminarily that the young forest on the average land in Östergötland clearly consists of more pine forest than before.

Something that the Swedish Forest Agency welcomes, as the pine can withstand drought and is not attacked by spruce bark beetles.

In recent years, spruce forest also dominates on medium-quality soils where there has previously been a mix of spruce and pine, which was preceded by pine and deciduous forest.

- The reason has mainly been that you are afraid of the grazing damage from ungulates on pine, says Ulrika Kraft Stenlund, district manager at the Swedish Forest Agency Östergötland.

Hear in the video above how to still get a pine forest to grow up and forest owners and the Swedish Forest Agency on how the forest should be farmed.

- The spruce plants are much easier to establish.

But if you put them on the wrong kind of soil, especially dry soils, you get problems.

They may grow up to 20, 30 years, but then they stop.

The challenge for us forest owners is now above all to get more pine and mixed forests on these moderately good lands, and a greater mix of leaves, says Anders Åneklint, forest manager Baroniet Adelswärd AB.