28 Mar
2012
28 Mar
'12
12:16 a.m.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Toby Thain wrote:
On 27/03/12 10:49 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
There are efforts going on to create harvestable and sustainable groves of
dalbergia melanoxylon (African Blackwood) in Africa and Florida. This is
the wood most commonly used to make bagpipes and other woodwind
instruments. It's been going on since the early 1990s. I'm particularly
fascinated by the Florida efforts.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Dave McGuire wrote:
Then you have to protect them for 100 years, too. Not so easy. I guess some
people on this list have never googled "deforestation". Why don't we just plant some more of the
damn trees, then?
If it takes one tree 100 years to grow to usefulness, . . . .
how long will it take if we plant 100 trees?