100 stories from the hiking route

1945 – county forestry centres are formed

Information

Topic

The story of forestry

Coordinates

Long-Lat WGS 84

Latitude: 58.09309722

Longitude: 24.68191944

L-EST 97

x: 6439308.4
y: 540217.8

Location

Ikla-Aegviidu Hiking route

Ten county forestry centres were formed in 1945 in order to manage the activities of forest districts. Forestry centres were self-sufficient and their initial task was to secure wood reserves, whereas actual forest management was less important.
Forest management was separated from forestry in 1947. Forest districts were formed based on the forest management fields of activity of forestry centres while the forestry centres themselves remained a forest stocking enterprises that later became six forest factories. The main task of the forest management system was growing forests and delivering timber forests to (mainly national) forestry enterprises.
The construction of dwellings for the workers of the Laiksaare forest base began in 1950. The builder was the forestry centre’s capital construction department. Four two-storey buildings with eight apartments each were built for the Laiksaare forest base in a couple of years by using lam boards from Järvakandi factory. The last building was demolished in early 1990.

Sources:
Etverk, I., Imet, K., Karoles, K. jt. 1998. Eesti riigimetsad ja nende majandamine 1918-1998
Etverk, I., Meikar, T.,Viilup, Ü. 2003. Pärnumaa metsad ja metsandus 20. Sajandi teises pooles