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Re: Endangered Tropical Woods



In article <32396D0D.60CC@globaldialog.com>, djdietz@globaldialog.com (D J
Dietz) wrote:

> John Lozier wrote:
> > 
> > Can someone answer a question that came up on a musical instrument
> > list (Harp@mit.edu):
> > 
> > Is BUBINGA an endangered species/
> > 
> > Other specialty woods mentioned have been PURPLEHEART, KOA, and PADAUK.
> > 
> > What I'd really like to do is post a more or less comprehensive reply to the
> > whole musical and instrument-building community.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > John Lozier
> > College of Agriculture
> > West Virginia University
> 
> John,
> I think the issue is not if the wood is an endangered species, but how
it was raised/
> harvested. I used to use a fair amount of tropical woods in my
bussiness, but have 
> since changed prodducts so I no longer do. One thing we trided to pay
attention to is
> the sustainability of how it eas harvested.
> 
> There was an interesting artical, I believe in Woodshop News, a few
years back on this 
> issue. The short of the conclusion that it came to was this; Either
these people are going 
> to slash/burn grow crops for a few years or harvest lumber. It got into
some situations 
> where U.S. companies were helping to market "sustainable wood" for these
areas and also 
> helping to educate them about these type of alteratives. 
> 
> I dont remember the exact figures, but it was intersting to see how it
takes soooo much more land to 
> not be sustainable. And it is also, if done right, almost a perpetual
thing for these areas.
> Your wood suppliers should also be able to give you more info. An d if
they cant, I would either 
> tell them you want if or find a different supplier.
> 
> Dan Dietz
> Reedsburg WI 
> 
> P.S. 
> Regenerative forestry is also very sustainable because very little
outside inputs are used.
> Lots of local low skilled labor that need work, and often draft animals
are used to pull 
> logs to reduce the impact of the forest.Maybe we could all learn
something from them.
From; Gregg Caudell
publisher; HORSELOGGER'S INTERNATIONAL NEWS    
gcaudell@televar.com
Howdy folks; hope you don't mind me joining this disucssion on sustainable
forestry but I've been surfing around to find just this sort of place to
interject our agenda. We started Horselogger's Int., News as a desktop
publishing effort to archive and network the how to's of draft power.  The
petroleum dependent economies of the world are in crises and much of the
indigenous knowledge of working draft animals has been lost in both high
and low tech cultures. Russia and Cuba case in point, trading petroleum
for food and getting back to benign tech of animal powered agriculture. 
You make a good point of 'consumer advocacy'. It is ultimately up to
consumer awareness that change will come. the multi-national corporate
interests roam the globe looking to put their rapacious technology to work
pillaging the unprotected resources of undeveloped countries.
I am looking for a netsite that has dialogue such as this. A place that
can list services and products of 'green' technologies.
Gary greenwell, U of I economist has good synopsis of the timber $
generated by horselogging as opposed to machines and how money circulates
in community far longer than petro $
Lynn Miller, Small Farmers Journal, Bx 1627, Sisters,Or has excellent
publication of Sustainable Agriculture.
there are many more, Tillers Int., Rural Heritage,

-- 
Horselogger's Int.
gcaudell@televar.com
Save the World with Horsepower!



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