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UK must grow more of its own wood to meet climate goals – new research (theconversation.com)

submitted 1 month ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

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[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

UK forestry (as far as I've seen) mostly consists of felling sitka spruce and lodgepole pine monocultures that were planted right after WW2 and never taken care of again. As a result the wood is shit quality and mostly goes for pulp/chipboard or biomass.

Higher grades of timber need to have straight grain and less knots, so that is achieved by selectively thinning out the forest maybe every 10 years, and pruning off lower branches. But this adds a lot of man-hours and cost, so I've never seen anyone doing that in UK. Tbf I haven't been around the industry at all since COVID, and the price of timber went up so much maybe things are changing.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're not wrong.

Source: grew up near pine Monoculture forestry land. Is grim, dead pines underfoot and little light. Few to no flowers. Sterile(ised) feeling "forests".