Posted on 05/02/2020 11:25:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
White pine, used for bolt wood....spruce, balsam, hemlock, maple, beech, birch and some oak, as well as poplar, cedar, etc.
When prices are high, the landowners get some good money when the trees are harvested.
But not in Maine...:)
A presumed “first world” nation that acts like it wants to be second world is already second world.
How many third world “refugees” can you admit into a suicidal first world nation before it becomes third world?
No problema!
I wish I had hundreds of acres of Maine wild blueberries instead....a valuable crop would come in every two years....much faster than trees.
What a hellbound load of sinfulness.
Find some plant that keeps your nose out of other people's business.
Whoever thought that mess up needs an ass whoopin'.
AL Gore’s head could keep a family warm for several hours.
With vegetables and berry crops, the above doesn't apply as much. Certainly in Alaska, with their abundant daily summer season sunshine the growth rate of vegetables is unreal.
Just report that cutting down trees spreads the coronavirus. No one will go near a tree, let alone cut one down.
Fow-Chi could verify the report and everyone would believe. Also Trump could state that cutting down trees could be a “game changer” in the fight against the coronavirus. He would be mocked and criticized and ostracized for that statement by the press day in and day out.
New studies would emerge claiming any evidence Trump has is anecdotal and that these new studies PROVE him wrong. What the hell does Trump know about SCIENCE! /s
Not quite right. Looks more like oilfields are abiotic - carbon dioxide in the mantle getting squished into long-chain hydrocarbons.
I used to think that was a fringe hypothesis but it seems to be gaining traction.
If so the term "fossil fuel" is inaccurate.
Kudzu leaves and seed pods can be fermented. Full of sugar, you could make ethanol from them.
In fact, you could use Kudzu; leaves, vines, seed pods, roots, 100% of it as biomass.
Technically, biomass is ANY plant or animal material used for energy production, or in various industrial processes as raw substance for a range of products. It can be purposely grown energy crops, wood or forest residues, waste from food crops, horticulture, food processing, animal farming, or even human waste from sewage plants.
So yes, Kudzu has plenty of energy uses.
Still, there’s much cheaper sources of energy. Gasoline is my favorite. Drill, baby, drill.
But using Kudzu can make the greenies help get rid of it!
Well, planting and harvesting trees takes carbon out of the atmosphere, the harvesting and building with wood provides employment, the end result is housing and commercial construction that benefits the country. Lumberjacking is actually one of the most dangerous jobs in existence, but it’s a job.
If part of the AGW hysteria can be co-opted and some better tree harvesting programs put in place, take a win where you can get it.
Potlatch, Rayonier, Weyerhaeuser, Pope Resources, Catchmark.
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