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Haha, yes it is true, Chris. The poison sprayed in the woods in Finland was 2,4,5-T. Sold as "Agent Orange" in the USA.
Agent Orange killed everything green with the leaves on, but left conifers standing. It was used in managing the seedling stands - an option to the clearing saw. And it really worked, they say. It was sprayed with helicopters or aeroplanes. After the treatment the seedling stand looked like a moonscape - with pines and spruces.
In 1975 they sprayed 3,5 million liters Agent Orange in Finland. The godfathers of the forest business loved the stuff, but people hated it. I have no memories of that era, but they had to stop using herbicides in mid 80's due to the resistance. People - the treehuggers of that time - had a nasty habit to gather on the plots which were about to get treated. Well, they sprayed the plots anyway, people or not. It was such a bad PR, they had to stop poisoning.