"Any lumber we get is from trees felled for ecological and protective reasons," Anna Malinowska, spokeswoman for Poland's state forestry board, said adding that without selective logging, infestations had spread on the Belarussian side of the woodland.
Logging a threat to Europe's last primeval forest: activists
Now, this wouldn't be the first time that some environmental activists went a little overboard about some necessary clearing; at the same time, it wouldn't be the first time (by a long shot) that selective clearing was used as a cover story for more extensive commercial logging to raise a little revenue.
Here's another story:
Polish ecologists say too many trees being felled in Poland's primeval forest
Who to believe?
I tried to find a picture that captures a sense of this place: the one below isn't too bad.
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