'The forest turned into the tall ships' - yes, that's where the oaks of Britain went, and those of various other places including Sweden ... which provided stimuli for the first forestry regs - i believe Gustaf Vasa made some sort of decree in this regard ... it was basic to national defense that there be sustainable shipbuilding timber ... there's a hall at Cambridge or Oxford that was built using oak beams around 1600 or so, new oaks were planted and tended on the endowment lands to replace them as needed ... a few years ago [!'95?] this was deemed to be advisable in the case of a few beams, and the resulting hue and cry among the greenie contingent was amusing to behold - 'carpenter spare that tree!' -g- ... but the charter required it, it was done, and now the roof stays up as the next generation of oaks get established as they gain strength for their turn ..... there's a page on the net on this as well
Lots of mistakes, everywhere, sure ... hey we're only human beans ... way too fecund, we generate far too many of us per hectarea in some places, and yes that sure affects forestry ... but on our optimistic days we feel we're learning, getting better each day in every way ... don't go popping our balloon on a Friday now eh -g- ... cheers
truckloggers.com - these people give great party each January, and their magazine is one of my favourite pieces of throne room reads
[edit] - on a guy's desk one time i saw a piece bucked out of a fair-sized eastern pine, it had the old broad arrow chopped into it, almost grown over ... from Nova Scotia i think, very old ... and technically, evidence of theft i suppose - that was mark of a claim of the crown over potential mast timber ... speaking of 'tall ships' |
