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To: ManyMoose who wrote (326008)9/25/2009 1:45:30 PM
From: Ron M2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 793914
 
A few words from an old papermaker. I worked in the industry contemporaneously with Mr. Whipple.

The preferred species for toilet tissue in our operation was poplar (popple) because of the fiber length of that species.
Softness was/is created by causing the individual fibers to lay atop one another in a random jackstraw fashion in a slurry before removing the water and drying the sheet. The positioning of the long fibers creates voids for both softness and absorbency. Paper created from recycled fiber, for the most part, consists of shorter individual fibers.

The poplar tree itself is quite short lived, as compared to other trees,and is harvested near maturity. When harvested, reforestation occurs naturally from suckers sprouting from the roots and provides increased cover, browse, etc for wildlife.

Also as an avid hunter I seldom found wildlife in mature stands of poplar. The suckers, however, provided accessible browse for deer and creatures.

Just a few facts about papermaking.

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