Are you ready for a change in your home? Whether it be in purchasing new furniture, changing up the flooring, or incorporating some new art pieces, choosing pieces that are made from hardwood can not only elevate the space but also be beneficial to your health. Here are six reasons why hardwoods are a wonderful addition to your home: 1. …
Planting trees is a crucial part of efforts to prevent climate change. Trees absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it as carbon in their biomass, which helps to reduce the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, one of the primary drivers of global warming. In fact, trees are one of the most effective and inexpensive tools we …
Over the years, all of us have received emails with a note at the bottom suggesting that you not print the email, implying that to do so would help with the destruction of our forests. This suggestion can create misunderstanding regarding the realities of how we manage our forests in the United States. The United States possesses approximately 9% of …
In this video, Criswell Davis talks about selection harvest, a sustainable timber and forestry management practice that only cuts down mature trees at their peak life. This is how the United States is able to satisfy 25% of the world’s appetite for hardwoods while only possessing 9% of the world’s hardwood resource in flooring, joinery, and futunitre.
Thanks to selection harvesting, in the U.S. we are growing twice as much timber as we’re cutting every year, and we have more than twice as much timber as we had 50 years ago.
I contend that humans resonate with wood because we share similarities with one another. Trees, like humans, are approximately 60% water. Trees, like humans, are about 18% carbon. Trees, like humans, have a peak life of about 80 years. Additionally, humans exhale CO2 and trees inhale it, keeping the carbon and exhaling oxygen. This is the very definition of symbiosis. …
