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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Wood ! but not here .... includes image
  • Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 10:02:22 -0700

Toni Hawryluk wrote:
 
The Future

If the current demand for wood flooring continues, future consumers will surely have even more choices, from an ever-changing lineup of sources. Increasingly, solid wood will be considered simply as one form of a natural resource that can be chipped, peeled, ground, sliced, or otherwise disassembled and then reassembled with adhesives and various other ingredients.


Orderly rows of Lyptus seedlings rise on a plantation in South America. It takes only about 15 years for the trees, a hybrid of two eucalyptus species, to be ready for harvesting.
Photo: Courtesy of Weyerhauser



Wood from sustainable forests, grown and harvested under carefully managed conditions, will be one source of new flooring material. One example is Lyptus, a natural hybrid of two eucalyptus species being grown on plantations in Brazil. According to Craig Anderson of Weyerhaeuser, which imports Lyptus flooring, 120-foot trees can be harvested about 15 years after planting; by comparison, red oak takes about 40 years to reach merchantable size, cherry 80 years. In the future, look for calculated hybridization to yield other options for fast-growing, renewable
tvoivozhd---as a recalcitrant if incapacitated farmer, this is something I approve of.  It doesn't make sense to attempt to "farm" trees that take 200 years to mature.  A tree that grows to 150 feet in fifteen years excites my admiration---no "tree farmer" in the Uhited States ever dreamt of such a crop---and its profit potential. The insatiable demand for wood products is not going to diminish,but trees this superior will go a long way toward pluggig the gap.  I'm happy you ran across this article---I certainly missed it.


  




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