Dead forest. It was interesting to see that also in Norway and Sweden there are vast dead birch forests, just like in Finnish Lapland. I believe these were killed by the same bug, Epirrita autumnata, a moth whose larvae feed on birch leaves and other plants, which caused widespread birch die-off in Finnish Lapland during 1965–66.

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