I am not sure what they are talking about. Most pine trees around here are straighter than Hiawatha’s arrow.
This also exactly sums up the US cattle / beef market
due to covid, USDA, EPA/FDA, environmentalism, government regs etc.... America's beef processing is almost entirely in the hands of a few very large firms
And while the US cattle herd is at 60 year lows, and food inflation is rampant, individual ranchers are still getting very low prices for their cattle
I was in Washington State last week for a high school reunion. I learned that all of the lumber mills in the area had been shut down because of the adverse logging regulations enacted over the past 40 plus years.
Meanwhile, the tree huggers are whining today about the high prices of houses.
And the size of forest fires have been growing over the past 40 plus years. When loggers cannot harvest sustainable trees, no roads are built or maintained in the forests. That is one of several reasons why forest fires are becoming larger.
“Americans are consuming more cardboard than ever”
LOL. Now whatever could have caused that?
https://www.naturallywood.com/products/laminated-strand-lumber-lsl/
Impressive stuff, good looking too bet it takes a good stain. If they don’t use formaldehyde based glues it won’t be bad for indoor VOC levels either.
People down on industrial hemp but you can make this exact product with it, and it takes 6 months seed to full sized with the equivalent fiber mass as an acre for acre of tree’s that takes 5 years for poplar and 8 for pine to achieve the same mass in tonnes. In the deep South you get two harvests per year.
In semi arid area’s agave fiber production is 10 times that of tree’s on a hectare per hectare basis agave being the number one biomass land plant by tonnes/hectare. Cellulose is cellulose fibers it’s the resins that make this product the fibers just hold the resins together.
My father-in-law (RIP) worked at the Weyerhauser plant in Grande Prairie, Alberta. It was well-run. That facility largely made wood for export to Japan, where they pay top dollar for too quality. The company was good with land management, too. Likely a smart move on their part.
I’ve never been a fan of particle board. They tried renaming it OSB and now it looks like a new rebranding to Laminated Strand Lumber. But the can’t fool me. It’s still particle board.
Good the Weyerhaeuser is investing in conservation fewer forset fires if many more would do the same.
Small brush burns first and fast.
My sister was CFO of the second largest timber company in our state after Weyerhaeuser.
I have not seen her since but once or twice since she went all Vaxx Nutz
I feel bad for her and especially her husband who is generally rational.
Never been to her private island either, although She claims I am welcome any time.