Please explain "sourced from Sustainable Woodland"

[bolthole]

Hi Cessna... I understand your scepticism but the answer is simple; not all wood is sourced sustainably.

 

Wood that is labelled 'from a sustainable source' is most likely to be from a sustainable source. Wood that isn't labelled as such may not be.

 

If you care about this, and it'd be hard for anyone to agree that it'd be okay to cut down all the world's trees, then all you can do is make sure you buy from a sustainable source.

 

You might be right that overall, worldwide, industrial civilisation is using up it's trees - this just makes it even more important that you 'believe' in the concept of sustainabiliy, not less.

 

Forgive me if I'm putting words into your mouth, but you're unlikely to find much sympathy here if you're basically arguing that 'cutting down trees is bad' because this is very much an over simplistic way of looking at things.

[cessna]

Hi Cessna... I understand your scepticism but the answer is simple; not all wood is sourced sustainably.

 

Wood that is labelled 'from a sustainable source' is most likely to be from a sustainable source. Wood that isn't labelled as such may not be.

 

If you care about this, and it'd be hard for anyone to agree that it'd be okay to cut down all the world's trees, then all you can do is make sure you buy from a sustainable source.

 

You might be right that overall, worldwide, industrial civilisation is using up it's trees - this just makes it even more important that you 'believe' in the concept of sustainabiliy, not less.

 

Forgive me if I'm putting words into your mouth, but you're unlikely to find much sympathy here if you're basically arguing that 'cutting down trees is bad' because this is very much an over simplistic way of looking at things.

 

 

Thanks bolthole, I say yet again I believe "Sustainable Woodland" is possible on a small scale but in the big picture it is not. I am not in the slightest against cutting down trees ,now doubt there are some do gooders out there that are, I need wood for firewood like the rest of us on here where ever,it comes from to be honest.

[woodyguy]

I share your general scepticism. Even the sustainable schemes generally allow quite a large percentage of non-sustainable wood! In reality sustainable means having a plantations with 70 years to maturity and taking less than 1/70th each year and replanting.

So some of the Scandinavian forests comply but I doubt whether much does from tropical regions, and forget sustainability for the hardwood stuff you buy from B&Q.

[StephF]

We buy timber for firewood from Kielder Forest, which is 'sustainably managed', the land is planted with trees, grown and harvested, then re-planted, its just a big tree farm, a timber crop. Wildlife and public benefit from the forest, and timber is provided for building, paper and bio mass, though with the development of the biomass industry, I dont think there has been anything like enough forest planted in past years to supply demands for present UK needs.