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The municipality of Oslo criticizes the new rounds of logging. – It’s vandalism, conservatives say.
The Nature Conservation Association is furious after visiting a light trail in Stovner where the Urban Environment Agency has cut down trees.
– We have been there and have had an inspection several times. And we think the interventions are unnecessarily large, says leader Helge Braathen of the Association for Nature Conservation in Groruddalen.
According to the association, the municipality has worked hard with large machines, and has also cut into the rock.
– They say there will be more snow on the road if we cut down trees. But there will also be more sun. I don’t think that’s a reason. The city council likes to talk about how many trees they have saved, but I have seen with my own eyes how many are cut down, Braathen tells Nettavisen.
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However, the Urban Environment Agency responds that they have behaved correctly.
– There is a misconception of large rock notched machines. It was a small eight-ton excavator. Near the trail of light, the route reaches up to the slopes of the mountains in many places. We do this for security reasons, says communications director Richard Kongsteien.
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The agency denies that they have destroyed game animals or insects.
– We have not touched the stream and what is alive there is as good now as before the Urban Environment Agency removed some fir trees, Kongsteien tells Nettavisen.
Shattered cultural monument
What has really lit minds is a cultural monument in Lillomarka. When the ore was to be transported from the Linnerud mines in 1880, it was transported on horseback along an artisanal mining road. The area is marked as a cultural monument. But that didn’t stop the Urban Environment Agency.
DESTROYED: Helge Braathen, head of the nature conservation association in Groruddalen, is shocked after the Urban Environment Agency’s treatment of a cultural monument from 1880.
Photo: Naturvernforbundet
– This appears as vandalism towards a cultural monument. Cultural monuments have their own protection. The fact that these machines ran over the cultural monument and this road, and probably destroyed it without being able to return it. It’s a disaster, Conservative Party group leader Øystein Sundelin tells Nettavisen.
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– But you’re no stranger to felling trees, are you?
– No. It is necessary to cut down trees in the forests of Oslo to manage the forest well. But a cultural monument will be something completely different.
He believes it is pettiness on the part of the city council, which sets a policy in which people cannot change their property, while they themselves “vandalize” cultural monuments.
VANDALISM: Conservative group leader Øystein Sundelin believes that what the Urban Environment Agency is doing is pure vandalism.
Photo: Heidi Schei Lilleås
– There is a great distance between life and learning. Politicians sit and argue about facades and balconies in Frogner and skylights in St. Hanshaugen, where the municipality refuses to improve their property, but then they themselves come to a cultural monument. The Oslo municipality chooses to create its own rules, says Sundelin.
However, the Urban Environment Agency admits routine failures regarding logging along the cultural monument.
“A routine failure occurred when this machine crashed, wood and twigs lay along the road and had to be cleaned. So a somewhat larger excavator was chosen, at the same time that the good weather ended and the rain softened and the ground unbearably. The machine started making tracks, “writes the Oslo Urban Environment Agency in an email to Aftenposten.
Lots of harvest
But this logging is part of a series of logging cases in Oslo that have sparked backlash.
In March 2019, all the trees on the traditional Olav Vs gate in front of Saga Kino were cut down to make it a car-free street. The harvest generated strong reactions. In December 2019, several neighbors managed to stop the felling of several maples in Lambertseter, describing it as the “best Christmas present they could have received.”
In February this year, trees were cut down in Ila to make a bike path. It created a furor among the residents of the area.
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In May, Councilwoman Hanna Marcussen (MDG) had to apologize after the municipality cut down a 100-meter forest in Holmlia without contacting neighbors.
According to the Urban Environment Agency, they cut down 30 to 50,000 trees a year in Marka. What a triple from a few decades ago. Much of the reason is, according to the agency, that with little logging, there will be little diversity in the forest and both the ecosystem in the forest and the outdoor area will be damaged for a long time.
The press officer of the Urban Environment Agency responds to Nettavisen that occasionally trees need to be felled in connection with projects, but they always want to replace each felled tree with one or more new trees.
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– For example, when it comes to Jordal Park and its surroundings, these days 20,000 plants and 100 new trees are being planted, writes the press officer in an email to Nettavisen.
The head of the nature conservation association in Groruddalen, Helge Braathen, is concerned about the city council’s ambition to plant 100,000 trees.
– We are beginning to question that ambition. In all, an incredible number of trees are cut down. There are also several plans, including a national ski resort in the lower areas. It will cost a lot of trees. I can’t get their policy to agree with what they say externally, Braathen tells Nettavisen.
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