Sentences with phrase «old growth timber»

Similarly, the greenest housing option may not be in a new build, but in renovating an existing home, especially one built long ago of local materials and old growth timber.

Old growth timber harvested from places such as Indonesia and the Canadian Boreal would also be subject to tariffs.

Not exact matches

You may have to sacrifice some goats to save the palilla.10 Or you may have to jeopardize a few jobs in the already declining timber industry of the Northwest (already devastated by our inane trading policy with Japan) to save an old - growth forest.

Widely hailed as a renewable natural resource, tropical timber from old - growth tropical forests is selectively logged worldwide at an unprecedented scale.

Timber harvests in Pará equate to almost half of all native forest roundlog production in Brazilian Amazonia — the largest old - growth tropical timber reserve controlled by any coTimber harvests in Pará equate to almost half of all native forest roundlog production in Brazilian Amazonia — the largest old - growth tropical timber reserve controlled by any cotimber reserve controlled by any country.

For example, the Northwest Forest Plan helps conserve old - growth forests, watersheds and species, while maintaining timber and other resources for communities in the region.

You were the only person haunting Première Est, normally a crowded pool, as the sinking sun started to brush the tops of the spruce trees — old - growth, I suspected, on slopes so steep the timber harvesters never could get to them.

A guided zip line tour through the mountains, just 10 minutes outside of Santa Cruz, will reveal 150 - foot views of towering old - growth timber.

With their rich histories and stories, these old - growth timbers provided shelter to families for over 100 years.

Note that in the 1930s, when this happened, conversion of old - growth to sustained yield timber production was considered to be best - practice by scientific foresters.

The ecological value of old growth wasn't appreciated at the time, and future pressure for wholesale conversion of old growth to timber production on US Forest Service land wasn't anticipated.

When we think of timber from lush, tropical forests, it conjures up images of valuable old - growth trees pillaged by logging companies and illegal...

The enviros counter that it is precisely the selling of scrap wood for paper products that makes logging the old - growth boreal forest profitable for timber companies, and that there are recycled products out there that are perfectly acceptable to discerning noses and other body parts.

But we're not talking about sourcing this kind of timber from old - growth forests, but from thinner «weed» trees that are crowding out a stand of trees in the forest, or diseased trees which have fallen.

Or cut old - growth timber.