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Land use at least is much more efficient when harvests are every 4-5 years instead of every 40-80 years with spruce or fir. Birch can be felled at around 55 yea
by Maxion 5y ago
Land use at least is much more efficient when harvests are every 4-5 years instead of every 40-80 years with spruce or fir. Birch can be felled at around 55 years.
Normal wood is kiln dried similarly to bamboo, and glued panels are done in a similar fashion.
Plywood is in a way more processed than bamboo.
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoWe could do the same process with fast growing bush-form softwoods like poplar or willow that regenerate from roots. In fact a stand of young poplars doesn't look too dissimilar from a bamboo grove; lots of narrow straight trees. I cut two dying poplars on my property a few years ago and there's now a stand of dozens of 4" diameter smaller trees, sprouted out from the root system.
- h2odragon 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing