It is true that some of the best lumber comes from Scandinavia. The wood there is strong and highly durable, having to survive the harsh conditions of the northern winter. A new study from the University of Copenhagen has hammered the point home even further. It stated that some Scandinavian evergreens actually survived the spectacularly harsh conditions of the last Ice Age while the entire region was blanketed with a massive sheet of ice. Much of today’s Scandinavian forests are populated by tree migrants from southern and eastern Europe which arrived after the temperatures warmed. However, there remains a large contingent of the original Scandinavian trees that survived against all odds.