100 stories from the hiking route

1948 – Kilingi-Nõmme Forest District’s scrap mill is established at Marana

Information

Topic

The story of forestry

Coordinates

Long-Lat WGS 84

Latitude: 58.1587555555556

Longitude: 24.9391444444444

L-EST 97

x: 6446803.7
y: 555284.9

Location

Ikla-Aegviidu Hiking route

Self-sufficient auxiliary enterprises or scrap mills (later known as consumer goods factories) were established by forest districts in 1948–1949.
The Kilingi-Nõmme Forest District’s scrap mill at Marana began operating in July 1948. By 1964, it had become the largest consumer goods factory, employing more than 200 people. Marana had a boiler plant along with a drying kiln, a lumber mill, a wood shop, woodchip-board mill, feed flour mill and other buildings. In addition to sawn timber and planed boards, they also made shingles, plaster mats, drainage pipes, windows, doors, stage frames, furniture, boxboards and many other things. Marana also had a shelling mill for removing seeds from cones.
The Marana nursery was also part of the Kilingi-Nõmme Forest District and its aim was to supply plants to other forest districts. Even today, trees are grown at the Marana nursery for planting elsewhere.
By the end of the 1960s, forest districts had become one of the more important establishments in the countryside along with agricultural associations. The technical equipment of forest districts improved, the recycling of wood increased and new fields of activity, such as supervision of nature conservation, hunting and fishing industry, apiculture, recreation industry and many others, were developed in relation to an increase in the area of the state forest, the expansion of industrial activity and the increased work capacity after the major storm in 1967.
Forest districts were dissolved in 1992 and thus Marana forest base stopped operating in its original form.

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