Kayakers, guitar players and others who use relatively small quantities of tropical woods are often concerned about deforestation, and rightly so, but they are not the problem; they are, in fact, part of the solutiuon. The deforestation of large parts of the Amazon basic are not due to logging, but to other practices, most notably a sort of slash-and-burn ranching that was encouraged for many years in many South American countries. Tree that we would consider very valuable were simply burned to produce temporary grazing ground. The wise use of tropical woods is what gives them economic value, and makes it preferable to log them than to burn them. And the production of marine plywood is a very efficent way to use logs. -- mike --------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Edelman mje_at_spamcop.net http://www.foldingkayaks.org (nomadics) http://www.findascope.com (choosing a telescope) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I have felt that if specialty wood users can make the wood more valuable as wood than pulp or cow pasture, that it would be a good thing. Nick -- Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks 824 Thompson St, Suite I Glastonbury, CT 06033 (860) 659-8847 Schade_at_guillemot-kayaks.com http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/ >>>>"It's not just Art, It's a Craft!"<<<< *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Nick wrote; > I have felt that if specialty wood users can make the wood more > valuable as wood than pulp or cow pasture, that it would be a good > thing. I can't take credit for this one as it came from a salesman of fibreglass sailboats. But it amused me then and still does. After a person criticized fibreglass boats and praised wood boats as being prettier the salesman said that he thought everyone should try to improve on the beauty of everything. He considered fibreglass an improvement on oil and silicone but he didn't think a wood boat was one bit prettier than a tree. I any case, a wood kayak sure beats hell out of a newspaper or a cow pasture unless you are a Dutch landscape painter. Cheers, John Winters Web site address http://home.ican.net/~735769 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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