Wood Facts

Some quick wood facts to digest :-D

Wood is 4 times more efficient as an insulator than an equivalent thickness of cinder block, 6 times more efficient than brick, 15 times more efficient than concrete, 306 times more efficient than steel, and 1,770 times more efficient than aluminum

50% of paper produced in the U.S. this year will be reclaimed and recycled into new materials!.

Wood fiber is used in the production of photographic film, rayon products, and even interior moldings of car doors.

Global wood consumption has tripled this century, roughly paralleling population growth.

Since 1940 we have been growing more wood in America than harvested. On average for every tree we cut we plant 2!

There are 13.2 million acres of old growth in the U.S.. Over half, 8 million acres, is preserved in national parks, wilderness and other set-asides. If you put these 8 million acres together, they would form a band five miles wide stretching from New York City to San Francisco.

We still have 70% of the forests that were here in 1600 - 737 million acres of forests in the U.S.

Scientists have discovered than when forests become old and overcrowded, trees begin to use more oxygen than they produce. Young, well-managed forest tend to be the most efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. There are some cool graphs involved in this which I'll show another time..once I get some permission from the owner (my department head).