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The most effective solution is combined harvesting of industrial and energy wood

Combined (integrated) harvesting of industrial and energy wood means flexibly and effectively harvesting both industrial and energy wood simultaneously, utilising mass treatment methods. When harvesting is done using this method, significantly less logging residue will be left in the forest than when utilising traditional methods. When global warming spreads, this will probably be significant in reducing the susceptibility of trees to damage caused by pests.

The combined harvesting of industrial and energy wood enables simultaneous traditional harvesting of single trees, delimbed mass-treated pulpwood, delimbed mass-treated wood to be burned and mass-treated non-delimbed whole trees for energy use based on the wood procurer's needs and the forest management requirements of each site. Mass treatment mainly refers to trunks whose diameter is 7–11 cm (2.8–4.3 in.) at chest level.

Significantly more wood can be harvested in an hour when using the combined industrial and energy wood harvesting method. This means a clear reduction in the carbon dioxide emissions per harvested cubic metre of wood. When a 10-wheel forwarder is used for transportation in the forest, there will be fewer driving tracks and the tracks that there are will not be as deep. This refers to all harvesting, not just harvesting on peat soil.

The total accrual per hectare increased, depending on the site, by less than forty per cent to more than fifty per cent when compared with regular harvesting of industrial wood harvesting as single trees. Profitability was also very high.