Subject: RE: baidarka Atlantic white cedar for gunwales?
From: Mark Reuten (nomadboatbuilding@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Dec 02 2000 - 19:33:27 EST
Right on Peter. If it's down, put it to good use and have reverence for
what it is. It's the big buyers that control the industry. My best
supplier is cutting up boom logs and beach combings half the time.
Mark.
>From: "Peter A. Chopelas" <pac@premier1.net>
>Reply-To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
>To: "'baidarka@lists.intelenet.net'" <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
>Subject: RE: baidarka Atlantic white cedar for gunwales?
>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:54:55 -0800
>
>On Wednesday, November 29, 2000 11:40 AM, Native Ways
>[SMTP:nativeways@hotmail.com] wrote:
> > Yellow cedar is very expensive and difficult to get out east. Mainly
>because
> > it has to be cut from Canada where there are relatively few left.
>Shouldn't
> > we leave these few alone and go for the more common resource? I met a
>guy
> > who claimed to use fallen and beached yellow cedar but that claim turned
>out
> > to be false for the most part. There just aren't enough of these
> > Grandfather trees for us to play with any more.
> > Greg Weiss
>
>
>Greg and the rest of you concerned with this kind of thing,
>
>Trees grow back! The size you need are easily cut from "crop" second,
>third and even fourth growth trees. The amount of wood used in a fleet of
>baidarkas is negligible anyway. The best way to make sure these species
>keep getting replanted is by keeping a healthy commercial market for it.
> If no one buys it, the foresters will not plant it.
>
>Do not get me wrong, I love the ancient forests and wish them to stay
>preserved, but what is mostly commercially cut is second (or more) growth
>"crop" trees. I mostly build with salvaged lumber, the most economical of
>all and it does not cut down any trees, but the concern for using wood to
>build kayaks way out of proportion the real problem, which is mismanagement
>of the forests. Certainly not because too many people are building kayaks
>with wood!
>
>Peter
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