{"id":1556,"date":"2016-06-04T13:39:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T20:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2016-06-04T13:39:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T20:39:03","slug":"postcard-dalarna-county-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/2016\/06\/04\/postcard-dalarna-county-no-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from Dalarna County, no. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brad Withrow-Robinson, Forestry and Natural Resources Extension agent for Benton, Linn and Polk Counties.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dalarna County was the seat of a very old and important copper and iron mining industry, an early source of wealth and power for Sweden.\u00a0 We visted the Falun copper mine, active since the 10th century and a UNESCO world heritage site.<\/p>\n

\n \"Preparing<\/a>\n
Preparing to head down into the Falun Copper mine.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

Why is that part of our forestry tour?<\/p>\n

Forest products were a critical part of early mining industry, which needed massive amounts of charcoal and round wood to extract and process the metals. Forestlands near the mine were hard pressed to provide these products.\u00a0 The mine is also\u00a0the birthplace of world\u2019s oldest stock company, which eventually became large forest and paper corporation Stora Enso.<\/p>\n

Over-exploitation of forest resources by the mid-16th <\/sup> century led to a series of perhaps the world\u2019s oldest forest protection rules.\u00a0 In 1607 King Charles IX issued a ban on logging and charcoal production within a one-mile radius of the Falun mine (using the old Swedish mile, about 7 English miles). It was named the “Peace Mile” in hopes it would reduce disputes over unregulated charcoal production.<\/p>\n

However it was not until 1754 that the surveyor Johan Brandberg finished measuring 112 points around the circumference of a the circle, marking each with stones. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n \"from:<\/a>\n
from: http:\/\/www.fredsmilen.se\/RosenGammalKarta.aspx<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
\n \"Marker<\/a>\n
Marker stone number 112 in the Peace mile ring, marked with an arrow.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

See old and new maps of the circle drawn by Brandberg at:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.fredsmilen.se\/RosenGammalKarta.aspx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

and <\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.fredsmilen.se\/Default.aspx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Brad Withrow-Robinson, Forestry and Natural Resources Extension agent for Benton, Linn and Polk Counties. Dalarna County was the seat of a very old and important copper and iron mining industry, an early source of wealth and power for Sweden.\u00a0 We visted the Falun copper mine, active since the 10th century and a UNESCO world heritage… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}