/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>370611
I think >>370564 was trolling, but my family is largely in logging, so I may be able to contribute a bit anyway. Pine grows fast, but does still take many years to harvest, but saplings are planted every year in a logging forrest so that lumber can be harvested yearly as well. It wouldn't make much sense for someone who's business is logging to only have a crop every 10-20 years! The US has more forrest land than it did 100 years ago largely thanks to the logging industry, since loggers always replant and expand forests they harvest (which is not just sustainably "green", it's sustainable business too!). Deforestation is a problem in the amazon and other rain-forests because it is logged more for land than lumber, and the trees there are much slower growth.

Pine forests produce more raw material by pound than equivalent acreage of food crop fields yearly, and are a major contributor to carbon fixation, or fighting global warming, since young growth trees eat more CO2 and push out more oxygen than almost any other crop (some algae and seaweeds do more, but not other farmed crops).

In other words, most american grown lumber is very green and a sustainable and beneficial crop. But what you said is also true, straw is a supplement, not a replacement, to lumber, and since it is a cheaply available byproduct of existing farming, it is also a good "green" material for construction (I would guess much better than fiberglass at least!)

Anyway, just wanted to dispel some common myths about the logging industry, if I got "Trolled", oh well...