Tilskudd til miljøtiltak i skog

This grant program from the Norwegian Agriculture Directorate provides subsidies for environmental measures in forests. The program supports activities that preserve and develop environmental values related to biological diversity, landscape, outdoor recreation, and cultural heritage in forests. Forest owners can apply for funding for three types of measures: care measures (additional costs or losses when implementing measures to preserve and develop environmental values), long-term preservation (partial coverage of economic losses related to preserving special environmental values where consideration requires the forest owner to refrain from logging or modify forest management), and wilderness-like areas (coverage of additional costs in forestry to avoid road construction that would reduce wilderness-like areas). The environmental measures must be mapped, environmental values must be demonstrable and documented, and additional costs or losses must be sufficiently documented. Awards require a 10-year agreement with the municipality.