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Old growth wood
By:Dan Ruff
Date: 5/23/2003, 5:32 pm
In Response To: Material: Resource Responsibility (ChrisO)

I guess I consider myself a conservationist. I have no problem using wood to build something, because wood is a renewable resource. If it's managed properly, you can keep using it forever.

Having said that, I am concerned with the use of old growth wood in these projects. The nice straight grain you get from western red cedar, redwood, and sitka spruce comes from very old trees. For the most part, these particular trees are being cut down at a rate that is greater than they can replenish themselves. I think boatbuilders are a very small part of the problem. It's the outdoor furniture, fences, and decks that are the big problem here, but we do play a part. I have no problem using these trees to some extent, because even these very old trees are renewable. We just aren't managing them properly. We (mankind) need to cut these old guys down at a slower rate.

If all boatbuilders stopped building with old growth wood, the problem wouldn't go away. We are a drop in the bucket. Does that exonerate us? I don't think so.

Messages In This Thread

Material: Resource Responsibility
ChrisO -- 5/23/2003, 11:27 am
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
Chip Sandresky -- 6/1/2003, 1:53 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
Colin -- 6/4/2003, 1:32 am
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Jeff The Tall -- 6/4/2003, 3:38 pm
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Colin -- 6/4/2003, 9:53 pm
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Colin -- 6/5/2003, 2:00 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility *Pic*
Chip Sandresky -- 6/4/2003, 3:37 am
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
Mark Woodhead -- 6/2/2003, 12:12 am
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Myrl Tanton -- 6/1/2003, 10:45 pm
Some Clarifications
Grant -- 6/4/2003, 10:43 am
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
Jeff The Tall -- 6/2/2003, 3:52 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
Don -- 5/23/2003, 7:37 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
LeeG -- 5/23/2003, 6:13 pm
Old growth wood
Dan Ruff -- 5/23/2003, 5:32 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
Tom Yost -- 5/23/2003, 4:47 pm
Pessemistic and oh so true. *NM*
Robert N Pruden -- 5/23/2003, 6:28 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
Mike Loriz -- 5/23/2003, 5:28 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
mike loriz -- 5/23/2003, 4:26 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/23/2003, 2:21 pm
Humans are part of nature...
srchr/gerald -- 5/23/2003, 1:58 pm
"We Have Met the Enemy+He is US"
C. Fronzek -- 5/23/2003, 1:51 pm
Re: "We Have Met the Enemy+He is US"
Tom Yost -- 5/24/2003, 11:53 am
Re:Mea Culpa
C. Fronzek -- 5/23/2003, 2:02 pm
We live, we die...
Robert N Pruden -- 5/23/2003, 1:49 pm
Re: We live, we die...
PBM -- 5/23/2003, 3:54 pm
Re: We live, we die...
Robert N Pruden -- 5/23/2003, 3:56 pm
Re: We live, we die...
Bob Kelim -- 5/24/2003, 12:44 pm
Re: We live, we die...
PBM -- 5/23/2003, 3:58 pm
Re: We live, we die...
Robert N Pruden -- 5/23/2003, 4:01 pm
Re: Conservationism vs. Environmentalism
Shawn Baker -- 5/23/2003, 3:35 pm
Re: Conservationism vs. Environmentalism
Ed Falis -- 5/24/2003, 10:24 am
Definitions a bit fuzzy where I live...
Robert N Pruden -- 5/23/2003, 3:55 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
Dan G -- 5/23/2003, 1:42 pm
Re: Material: Recycled Cedar House Trim
Brian Wegener -- 5/26/2003, 1:03 am
Re: Thinner strips???
Scott Ferguson -- 5/23/2003, 1:23 pm
Re: Thinner strips???
Roger Nuffer -- 5/23/2003, 5:07 pm
I love plastic
Greg Bridges -- 5/23/2003, 1:54 pm
Re: I love plastic too...
Scott Ferguson -- 5/23/2003, 2:03 pm
Re: I love plastic too...
Greg Bridges -- 5/23/2003, 2:55 pm
Re: No worries Greg, I've done the same thing :D *NM*
Scott Ferguson -- 5/23/2003, 5:01 pm
Re: I love plastic too...
Shawn Baker -- 5/23/2003, 3:37 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
Chip Sandresky -- 5/23/2003, 12:48 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
Paul J -- 5/23/2003, 12:42 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
Tim Eastman -- 5/23/2003, 12:37 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
DAVE SPRYGADA -- 5/23/2003, 12:32 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
Tom Yost -- 5/23/2003, 12:04 pm