Posted on 09/05/2023 7:42:06 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
The only way to address this report and most reports and studies from this government is that if the government is saying it, it is wrong.
Earth is Home to 3.02 Trillion Trees
Erin Blakemore | Correspondent | September 3, 2015
... In a release, the international team called its results “the most comprehensive assessment of tree populations ever produced.”
Previous reports of the world’s tree counts seem to have been pretty conservative: The most recent estimate only counted 400 billion trees, reports Nature.com’s Rachel Ehrenberg. Because prior studies used satellite technology alone instead of including data from on-the-ground tree density studies, writes Ehrenberg, they missed the mark. The study shows that there are about 422 trees per person, but where are all those trees located? If you guessed the tropics, you’re right: 43 percent of the world’s trees grow in such areas, while the densest areas of tree growth can be found in sub-arctic regions in places like Russia, Scandinavia and North America.
https://apnews.com/article/science-trees-5d29245e237a4004aa9b0df074ca640d Lots of trees to hug: Study counts 3 trillion trees on Earth BY SETH BORENSTEIN | Published 10:27 AM PDT, September 2, 2015
In their irrational radical efforts to save the earth they are hell bent on destroying the earth.
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont are in order the most forested states in the USA by percentage.
NH is 80% forest.
The irony is that in 1865 it was just the opposite. It was 20% forested. Only the high peaks of the White Mountains had not been clear cut for farming.
Eventually, all the smart farmers moved to Iowa, Indiana or other states that had a little more top soil. The only thing that grows well here are White Pines, Maples, Hemlocks and Oaks.
BARK BEETLES are feasting
I think it is a great idea! Let professional loggers “euthanize” the old trees and send them to lumber mills.
It was always my understanding that the green plants play a part in the oxygen that we breathe. Of course, the climate alarmists always seem to want to mess with things they don’t thoroughly understand.
These people are very sick. They think they can control everything. A day of reckoning is coming.
far out!
makes me want to dig out the tie dyes & bell bottoms
He’s dead, Jim.
Boy how I miss DeForrest Kelley. R.I.P.
100% with you and the science.
I love how you expanded on the concept of AGW, hatred of Carbon, Me, You and all of humanity.
“THEY” are aligned with “the enemy”. That makes THEM the enemy.
Poll Pott.
I think back to reading The Grapes of Wrath and the USDA running communes. But, hey they needed to make up for being party responsible for the dust bowl since the government was incentivizing and promoting farming so much that every Tom, Dick and Harry from the big city thought he could farm.
A little background on me, born, raised in / on Brentwood ( located central) Long Island, New York. Left 1979. First person in my family to leave New York in over 300 years, going back (family tree) to the French Huguenots. (Huguenots pronounced HEW-gə-nots, or HEW ga knots.)
Now live in the west side of the People's republic of Washington, west of the Cascade Mountain Range, 50 miles north of the San- FRAN- FREAK-O, of the north, formerly known as Seattle.
Big Cedar Trees, Hemlocks, still now and then , old straight as an arrow "Fir" trees found West of the Cascades, and East of the Olympic Mountain Range (a.k.a Washington State's Northwest peninsula area, Rain Forrest etc.)
Daughter number one decided to build a barn mansion, started to do the ceiling in White Pine, but then lumber prices went nuts.
Told her to think about buying a Wood-Mizer portable sawmill equipment, to finish the job. You could then recoup your investment. She at first thought I was completely off my rocker, but she's starting to warm up to the idea. LOL. Not that I'm going to be running it @ 70 yr's old.
She has to convince her hubby to warm up to the idea. That, in, and of itself; is a whole different story, lack of skill's being the top of the list, if you get my drift.
My family moved to WNY in 1870s. I grew up right near Rich stadium(Orchard Park). Where they used to turn on the Juice(OJ). My three brothers and I all went to various SUNY schools and then left.
I moved to NH in 1985. I have a degree in Wood Products Engineering from the SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry at Syracuse University. I have a dual degree from SU too. I have been a lumber broker for 38 years.
My company buys lumber, plywood & osb from companies right in your backyard(so to speak). Interfor, Weyerhaeuser, Hampton, Sierra Pacific, High Cascade, Teal Jones, Yakama Forest Products, Bennett, Vaagen Brothers all have mills in WA state among others.
Lumber has come back down to normal levels over the last year. Right now the wholesale price of lumber is about half of what it was a couple years ago. It is roughly 25% of its peak price in 2020. OSB is still relatively high though.
So, the price of lumber at the retail dealers should be back to normal prices.
When you refer to White Pine do you actually mean Idaho White Pine or Eastern White Pine? There is not a lot of that manufactured now. IF you meant Ponderosa Pine there is a GLUT of that on the wholesale market. Especially in 1x6 #3 common. It is at or close to record LOWS. This is because there has been a lot of salvage pine coming out of CA & OR. Much more than the market can absorb.
1x6 run to a tongue and groove pattern is what daughter #1 would probably be using on her ceiling. That product should be relatively cheap in comparison to a couple years ago. Most of the mills are actually selling this at less than their cost to produce.
Cutting timber with a Woodmizer sawmill or any other portable sawmill is fine IF you have FREE timber of your own. Even then you still have to cut the trees down. Buck them to length. Get rid of the tops(burn them typically).
Then you have rough sawn lumber that needs to be stacked, stickered and air dried for a year before it is ready to use.
Then you have to run it through a planer/molder to make it into a useable product.
So, IMHO those machines are only practical if you are building in Alaska or some other remote location where going to the lumber yard is not practical.
I considered having someone come to my property and cut my timber/logs to build a barn. I have 12 acres and plenty of standing Oaks and Maples I could cut. I gave up on the idea fairly quick.
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