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A mixed forest in autumn in the Jura. The forests of Switzerland are located across much of the country, at elevations up to the tree line, which lies at about 2,000 metres above sea level. They cover 1.3 million hectares or 32% of Switzerland. The most wooded regions of the country are the massifs of the Jura and the Alps.
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians are used to study the spread of the beech tree (Fagus sylvatica) in the Northern Hemisphere across a variety of environments and the environment in the forest. The site was first listed in 2007 in Slovakia and Ukraine. It was extended in 2011, 2017, and 2021 to include forests in a total of 18 countries.
Forests of Switzerland * Western European broadleaf forests; P. Po Basin mixed forests This page was last edited on 14 December 2018, at 11:41 (UTC). Text is ...
As of 2001, 36.9% [26] of the land in Switzerland was used for farming. 30.8% of the country is covered with forests and woodlands, [26] with an additional 6.8% covered with houses or buildings. [1] About one-fourth (25.5%) of the country is either mountains, lakes or rivers and is categorised as unproductive.
The city of Zürich received the Sihl forest, or Sihlwald, as a gift in 1309 from the Hapsburgers and again in 1524 through the dissolution of the Fraumünster convent. Over the following centuries, the forest provided Zürich with timber and firewood. From 1876 on, there was even a forest railway which facilitated the work in the forest ...
The forests are mainly composed of conifers above 1,200–1,400 meters, the deciduous tree forest is confined to lower elevations. The upper limit of the Subalpine zone is located at about 1,800 meters on the north side of the Alps and about 2,000 meters on the south side.
As of 2016, the eighteen official nature "parks of national importance" in Switzerland are: [1] National parks (1) . Swiss National Park; Regional nature parks (16) . Aargau Jura Park
The forests in the Swiss Plateau are used in forestry. There are many Norway Spruce forestations, often in monoculture because of their valuable timber. Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant. With respect to industry, the plateau is the most important region of Switzerland. The traditional textile industries are situated especially in the central and ...