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- From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: The Real Challenge
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 12:31:56 GMT
- Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
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- >> The tight grain is due to the slower growth which occurs
- >> in established forests.
- > does Cameron Spitzer know a law of nature that guarantees that
- > no-one will succeed in developing a tight-grain wood that does
- > grow rapidly[?]
-
- =o= One has to wonder how relevant the question is. Getting
- back to the purpose of this thread, I think it's more relevant
- to ask whether one can depend on the development of such a
- tree to sustain the type of resource depletion that takes
- place in this scenario.
-
- =o= Given that you wouldn't bet on it for at least 50 years,
- I'll have to strongly suspect that the answer is "no."
- <_Jym_>
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