In Sweden there is an unwritten law about forest rights, saying that anybody is free to enjoy the products of nature as long as he or she uses this freedom together with a lot of responsibility and respect for nature. A few other forest products are mainly used as decorations for Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and other festivities. At Christmas, people buy Christmas trees, mistletoes and lichen in order to decorate their homes and at Easter they buy birch twigs and put coloured feathers in them. Another Swedish custom is to adorn anything with leafy branches as soon as there is something to celebrate, such as Midsummer, graduations, weddings, birthdays and so on. Reindeer Keeping and Forest Grazing Reindeer, which stroll freely on the slopes of the mountains or in the forests, are mostly kept by Lapps, Sweden's now domiciled nomads.
Some farmers also let their sheep and cattle graze in the forests in the summers.
Most of the timber ends up at sawmills and papermills.