The barriers have been set up at an area that the county board planned to turn into a nature reserve.
Trees several hundred years old grow there, including pines, which have been cut down on several occasions. The incident has been prosecuted by the Forestry Agency, but it was time-barred.
“You get pissed off”
Forest biologist Frédéric Forsmark calls it conservation sabotage.
– You get pissed off that there are so few forests like this left and that you sort of go in to destroy them, he says to Ekot.
Jonas Wahlström’s company Hvalfisken has thwarted the authorities’ control by not allowing their cars in. Instead, the officials have been forced to cycle.
Don’t want to comment
When Ekot asks for a comment, neither Wahlström nor other representatives want to comment on the data.
On the website, the company writes, according to the radio, that property rights must always be protected, that it is motor traffic you don’t want on your private roads and that the ambition is for forestry to be run in harmony with nature.