Logging and Lumber
Uses for trees (coniferous / deciduous):
Environmental Impacts of the Lumber Industry
Logging Operations:
Clear-Cut: most common form because it is the cheapest and fastest
Solutions
- Furniture (shelves / desks etc.)
- Paper + paper pulp (books)
- Building materials (floors / houses / fences etc.)
- Burning / fuel
- Pencils and other instruments
- Sculptures
- Transportation (boats / carts etc.)
Environmental Impacts of the Lumber Industry
- Forest fires
- Less shelter for animals
- Can destroy an ecosystem
- If we take too many trees (huge amount) it could affect our level of oxygen in the atmosphere
- Trees provide clean air
- Machines produce pollution and carbon dioxide
- Giant machines can compact the earth and run over smaller plants / animals while harvesting trees
- Trees take tens to hundreds of years to grow back
Logging Operations:
Clear-Cut: most common form because it is the cheapest and fastest
- Involves cutting down all the trees, and leaving nothing behind
- More trees are replanted, but in uniform rows which isn’t as good for the ecosystem
- Groups of seed bearing are left standing so the seeds can regenerate the area
- Much less disruptive then the other kinds of logging, but is also the most expensive operation
Solutions
- Be more selective of what parts of a forest are cut down
- Ensure there are lots of fully protected forests that are not touched at all
- Keep designated commercial forests to use for lumber
- Plant more trees!
- Do more selective cutting, or at least shelterwood logging
- Use bamboo more instead of normal trees
- Find alternative resources instead of wood
- Ensure the machines that are used don’t pollute too heavily
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