The main functions of the organisation is to assist the members, who are mostly farmers, to manage their forest.

Both the regional and central associations hold major ownerships of Norske Skog and Moelven Industrier.

[1] The first mayor task was to buy the Borregaard corporation based around Glomma from the British Kellner-Partington company, that was finalised in 1917.

[2] In 1962 the association founded Nordenfjelske Treforedling that opened the Norske Skog Skogn plant in 1966.

The association still owns about 20% of the corporation, that has become the world's largest producer of newsprint.