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To: combjelly who wrote (309455)	11/7/2006 9:21:35 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578045

They use mostly pine in Sweden. But obviously birch is a lot more valuable for the pellet industry. Incidentally the rapidly growing pellet demand in Scandinavia has thus increased the demand and price for birch a lot. So when a serious late autumn storm swept over Sweden 2 years ago and just flattened large fir forest areas thus creating an enormous over supply of billions of cubic feet of timber, for the first time replanting with birch was strongly suggested. The fir is not native to these areas but growing faster and being in demand by the timber industry has been much favored the last 100 years or so. It has the disadvantage of very shallow roots, however, the fir kind of just stands on top of the surface, whereas birch goes deep and can handle a few heavy storms, where the first tend to tip over. Add to that the premium paid for extra long wood with the result that mature woods was just kept on their feet a year or too long to withstand some wind. So now replanting birch is being encouraged by the experts and is being followed to meet the increasing pellet demand. By the way, travelling by car in the Southern parts of Sweden one still encounters enormous free air storing areas, where whole forests while being watered are waiting for better times to be sold. Taro