Swedish Mountain Forest Boundary from the Swedish Forest Agency

Swedish mountain forest boundary digitized by the Swedish Forest Agency (Skogsstyrelsen). The boundary is suitable for overview purposes but lacks legal effect. The legal basis is the regulation SKSFS 1991:3.

Use Cases

• Visualizing the extent of mountain forest areas based on the digitized boundary.
• Planning forestry projects relative to the mountain forest zone.
• Comparing administrative boundaries with the official mountain forest definition.

Strengths

• Boundary digitized by the authoritative Swedish Forest Agency.
• Available under a CC0-1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

• Last updated 2013-05-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• The digital boundary lacks legal effect, as stated in the description.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Lantmäteriet

Geography

Sweden