Home SCA Group SCA is a leading global hygiene and forest products company Search Search this website SCA Websites Home - SCA – Hygiene & forest products company About SCA Products Media Investors Sustainability Careers Contact Press releases News features Publications Press Backgrounders Calendar Press release search Images & films SCA in social media RSS feeds Subscriptions SCA’s third forestry and versatility park inaugurated 2014-08-28 15:00 On August 19 SCA’s forestry and versatility park was inaugurated in Sörgraninge, Sollefteå Municipality in Sweden. The new park offers a wide variety of natural habitats, including high-conservation-value forests and cultural relics from ancient times. The inauguration ceremony of the park was conducted by Monika Stridsman and Bo Källstrand, County Governor of Västernorrland’s County Administrative Board who together put a memorial plaquette on a tree. ”I’m delighted to be here today. This is a great initiative and if we shall be able to reach Sweden’s environmental targets we need to continue the cooperation. There are no limits for this diversity park,” said Monika Stridsman, Director-General of the Swedish Forestry Agency at the inauguration. The park is located in south-eastern Ångermanland where the landscape is highly diverse with demarcated mountain groups and a multitude of marshes and lakes. One of the ideas behind SCA’s forestry and versatility parks is to strengthen existing conservation values. This forestry and versatility park achieves this aim by, for example, linking three nature reserves. ”By placing our diversity parks next to nature reserves we combine the State forest protection with the voluntary and it will be great to follow the development of the nature values of the area,” said SCA’s Forest Ecologist Per Simonsson. SCA’s Forest Ecologist Per Simonsson explaining the nature values in the area The natural assets of the park include a fertile woodland stream, a high-elevation conifer forest with heavy lichen growth, fire-affected pine forest, sand pine scrub and deciduous forest. The park therefore offers a multitude of habitats for mosses, lichens, fungi, insects and animals. The park also contains cultural relics, including a complete system of pitfall traps - the Åkroken pitfall-trap system is 700 meters long and dates back to 3500 BC, which makes it the oldest system in the county. SCA has also laid a new pitfall trap to show visitors what the pits might have looked like when they were used for elk hunting, for example. Remains from Stone Age settlements have also been found in the park, as well as remnants from two charcoal kilns used in the early 1940s. Find out more about Sörgraninge and SCA’s other versatility parks Last updated: 8/28/2014 Email Home MediaNews features2014 In this section 2014 Print page View PDF basket More facts about Sörgraninge The park is easily accessible to visitors and offers great opportunities for outdoor recreation. There are several beautiful and exciting trails, and an array of good fishing waters. Total area 1, 710 hectares, 1,428 hectares of productive forestland and 996 hectares will be managed to promote the preservation or development of the existing nature conservation values. 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