Subject: Re: baidarka Atlantic white cedar for gunwales?
From: James Mitchell (mariner@seanet.com)
Date: Sat Dec 02 2000 - 21:55:27 EST
Amen!
What constitutes a "crop"? What formula for cycle time converts "harvest"
to "extraction"? Can the taking of a product that requires more than a
hundred years to regenerate be called a harvest?
I was gone from my Cascade homeland for most of the Reagan-Bush years. When
I returned to drive over Snoqualmie Pass, when I next stood on the side of
Rainier after the first snows, the white patches of new clearcuts stretching
from border to border brought tears. Our Canadian brothers enact the same
drama in the Clayoquot, and across the interior BC. Come look, come look
with me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "thomas-simpson" <thomas-simpson@home.com>
To: <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: baidarka Atlantic white cedar for gunwales?
> Yes trees grow back , not in our lifetime though for a 14" diam yellow
cedar.
>
> If one relies on 'professional foresters' for the health of the forest
ecosystem
> you have decisions being made for economic reasons that should be made for
> ecological ones.
>
> Small scale local woodlot operators and community owned forests are the
only
> ways to go.
>
>
>
> "Peter A. Chopelas" wrote:
>
> > 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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