2026 · III · 14
A late frost on Tjurrven
The thaw came back on us the second week of March. We have walked the larch line and the buds are intact, but two of the spring crews lost a planting day. The ground will hold.
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A patient business — growing slowly, trading honestly, restoring more than we remove.
Active Plots
38
Saplings Planted (YTD)
12,480
Trees per Felled
7
Carbon Held (t)
91,200
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Stewardship of the Slow
A pine planted today will be cut by the next generation. We accept that arithmetic, and we plan for it. Every parcel under our management has a hundred-year letter — a written intention for the land that outlives any of our directors.
- Three foresters on site, year-round, in each of our five working stands.
- Selective cutting only — no clear-fell across our holdings since 1989.
- Replanting follows the original mix: birch with birch, larch with larch.
- Soil chemistry sampled each spring, before the thaw runs out of the gulleys.
02
Species Catalogue
We work principally in cold-climate hardwoods and slow-growth conifers. Each species is logged below with its working code, dominant stand, and the cycle on which we return to it.
| Code | Species | Stand | Cycle |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIR-04 | Silver Birch (Betula pendula) | North Hagland | 62 yr |
| LAR-11 | European Larch (Larix decidua) | Tjurrven Ridge | 85 yr |
| PIN-02 | Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) | Lower Vesle | 95 yr |
| OAK-07 | Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea) | Sungmu Valley | 140 yr |
| SPR-09 | Norway Spruce (Picea abies) | Kalvfjell East | 75 yr |
03
Harvest Cycle
Our cutting is mapped to the calendar of the forest, not the calendar of the market. Frost-felling reduces sap loss; spring is for replanting; summer for inventory walks; autumn for trade.
Winter — Felling
Selective frost-felling. Hand-marked trees only. Snow-covered ground protects undergrowth from skidder tracks.
Spring — Replanting
Saplings raised in our Bergen nursery are returned to the parent stand. Mixed-age planting only.
Summer — Walking
Foresters walk every parcel on foot. Disease, deer pressure and windthrow are noted in the green ledger.
Autumn — Trade
Sawn timber leaves the yard for joinery, instrument-makers, and small builders. Long contracts only.
04
Timber Trade
We sell to buyers who can wait. A one-time order of stove-wood is, with respect, not for us. We prefer the cabinetmaker who needs ten boards a year for thirty years.
- Furniture-grade boards: rough-sawn or planed, kiln-dried to 8–12% MC.
- Tonewood billets for instrument-making — quarter-sawn spruce and birch.
- Structural beams from larch and pine, graded to C24.
- Coppice products — hazel, willow — for hedgerow and fencing trades.
Pricing follows the volume and the year, not the inquiry. Our standing offer is honest stock at honest measure.
05
Forest Ledger — 2025
The ledger is the single record by which we judge ourselves. It is published in plain numbers, once a year, after the autumn audit.
- Standing volume, all stands
- 418,200 m³
- Annual increment
- +11,640 m³
- Volume removed (felled + thinning)
- −7,910 m³
- Net change
- +3,730 m³
- Saplings established
- 12,480
- Hectares re-stocked
- 38.6 ha
06
Field Notes
2026 · II · 02
An order from a violin-maker in Cremona
Twelve quartersawn spruce billets, dried four years. He will keep them another five before the first cut. This is the rhythm we work for.
07
Contact the Yard
Inquiries are welcome by post or by telephone, in working hours, and answered in the order they arrive. We do not list a public e-mail because we read paper better.
Bergen Office
Strandgaten 47
5004 Bergen, Norge
+47 5511 4072
Pyeongchang Stand
평창군 진부면
강원도, 25303
+82 33 332 7141
Yard Hours
Mon – Fri, 08:00 – 16:30
Saturday by appointment
closed Dec 21 – Jan 06