From the forestry perspective of Metsähallitus, it was difficult to
understand the dissatisfaction of the NGOs, or their perception of
the situation in the first place. According to their Forestry Frame, the
earlier policy decisions and planning practices had led to significantly
increased levels of protected old-growth forests, in the case of Kainuu
by approximately 550 km2
, illustrated by the upward trend in curve B
in Fig. 1. The ‘problem’, as perceived through this frame, was not the
decreasing amount of old-growth forests, but the conflict caused by
the unreasonable and selfish demands of national and international (Greenpeace) environmental groups, allegedly uninterested in the
impacts of their actions on the local people.