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- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!truffula!cls
- From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer)
- Subject: Re: The Real Challenge
- Organization: Save the Humans!
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 08:19:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.081939.971@truffula.sj.ca.us>
- References: <88290205@hpindda.cup.hp.com> <JMC.93Jan23183736@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <JMC.93Jan23183736@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >It is conceivable that we shall have to substitute
- >for high quality wood, which is indeed being rapidly used up. More
- >likely, we will succeed in getting high quality wood from tree farms.
-
-
- "High quality" wood is tight-grained and knot-free. These are
- characteristics of wood from trees which grow into an intact canopy to
- a very old age: the very type you can't get from a tree farm. The
- tight grain is due to the slower growth which occurs in established
- forests. "Even-aged management" (clearcutting and monoculture) gives
- trees which grow quickly into full sunlight, with a resulting loose
- grain. This is why wood from old-growth forests brings a higher price
- than the same species from a tree farm. Ask any cabinetmaker.
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-
- Cameron
- --
- He who does arithmetic day and night can spout as much nonsense as
- anyone else.
-