P van Rijckevorsel wrote:
: The more durable woods tend to be overexploited and are ever
more rare. For example lignum vitae is now CITES-listed

: Jie-san Laushi schreef
: All the more reason to reforest tropical deforested areas. Plant these
rare, durable species on a large enough scale, and this will take pressure
off the wild populations.

: Jie-san Laushi

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: Very little chance of that. These species with durable woods tend to
take a
long time to mature. General policy for replanting deforested areas is to
use quickly maturing species, usually for paper pulp. Quite often pine or
eucalypt. That is where the money is. Actually it still happens that entire
natural forests containing some of the most beautiful hardwoods in the world
are cut down and processed as pulp, at best to be replanted in pine or
eucalypt..

Chris Garvey schreef
Acacia sp. are becoming more common.

regards
erastothenes

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Yes. Something else fairly popular for plantations is Gmelina arborea. But
these all tend to be short-cycle tree crops
PvR