OUGD505 STUDIO BRIEF TWO - RESEARCH - STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW: TIMBER! HOW TIMBER WORKS PODCAAST

This is a podcast it was suggested I listen to by my tutor.

Notes:
- North America had a lot of trees when settlers first came arrived. It was overrun with pigeons as native Americans all died off due to an illness carried by the pigeons. There were a lot of pigeons as there was no one to hunt them. Same goes for the forest, it was so foresty because there was no one to cut it down.
- In the 1600's 40% of land north of Mexico was trees.
- Russia and Brasil have 30% forest land, and are at the top of this list.
- Europe has the most dense 1001,000,000 hectares of forest
- 1.58 billion hectares of forest in the world
- Built several new nations out of wood
- 1 acre of land at least 10% tree cover classes as a cover. 758 million in US, 766 million Canada.
- Timberland is a type of forest - certain amount of usable timber to call it Timberland. 20 cubic foot of commercial wood per acre per year.
- 2/3 of USA is forest land
- 502,000,000 acres of Timberland in USA.
- Timberland is good and easy but it's important to reproduce. What you grow must be more than you cut down.
- USA since 1920's haven't made anything worse in deforestation, but since 1950's they've gotten better with growing more trees than they cut down.
- We've been using wood since 1.5 million years ago (clubs, fives etc)
- Tree's have 70% of the organic carbon locked into the earth.
- Forests soak up rainfall. Keep soil in good shape soaking water.
- Timber is used for firewood a lot still today.
- 7% of timber used for heating and cooking in the USA.
- Lumber 53% in USA for constructing new houses.
- Pulp and paper 32%
- Plywood and vanier 7%
- Lumber is wood squared/rectangular.
- Construction 50:50 Structure, palates, crates, furniture, lumber split in USA.
- Palette thieves and counterfeit in USA
- Paper: fibre board made from paper pulp.
- MDF: medium density fireboard
- Hard board is stronger than fireboard - it's more dense and is pressed harder
- Clear cutting - cut down all the trees - over 5 acres amount
- Increases erosion, aesthetics - looks like a wasteland. Sets stage for weeds to take over from tree seedlings.
- Shelter wood cuttings - partial cuttings over time where trees can regenerate.
- Sea tree harvesting and selection harvesting are types of selecting trees to cut down. Unfair selection.
- Cut all the limbs off the tree (bucking) cut into logs and skid logs down the trails to landing area and are sorted and graded for different purposes and products.
- Logging is the 1st/2nd most dangerous profession in USA, close with commercial fishing (based off deaths in the previous year)
- Bark represents one of 3 organs of a tree - it transfers energy around the tree.
- 30% forestland cut down in the 17th century - mid 19th century, about a billion acres originally there in USA. The government got behind conservationists to protect forests.

Comments:
This was a really interesting podcast to listen to, and with it being an hour long they made jokes and had breaks so it didn't get too boring, however a lot of it was facts about wood itself rather than deforestation which I am focusing on. However it was still really useful as I got bits of information that is related which I wouldn't of it I hadn't listened to this podcast.