The forests that are burning are about 150 and 300 years old, says Frédéric Forsmark, forest ecologist at the county administrative board's nature conservation unit, to the newspaper.
In total, an area of about 360 hectares – approximately 500 football pitches – has burned and a large part of it belongs to the Pärlälvens fjällurskog nature reserve. According to Forsmark, it is one of the larger remaining mountain forest areas in Sweden.
The reserve is about 100,000 hectares.
Nature will recover, but it will take time.
It may look dull for a hundred years from now for us visitors, but for nature it is no disaster, says Frédéric Forsmark.
He also points out that the fire may be large for a forest fire in modern times, but in relation to the nature reserve, it is not enormous.
