Show h Full Forest Utilization and New T Products By to Conserve Timber 1 P ISLE t HUrl i Nr iNe Uses iII e Amount of Timber Cut Annually While wood and wood products products' have found thousands of new uses many of which will be important in postwar era era the final effect will be bea a definite conservation of standing timber Many of the new plastics plywood and other Items are being manufactured manufactured from bark sawdust and other sawmill wastes and then are arc being utilized to replace high grade lum turn lumber ber products The development of hardening of wood will conserve the lumber to a D greater extent It will give at al least leasta a 50 per cent increased life to lums lum lum- r lI tf s meats ments considerably slower Fire Fire- Fireproofing Fireproofing proofing of wood products will also conserve the Ule rapid diminishing stand of timber The intensified competition be be- between between tween wood products metals plas plas- plastics plastics tics ceramics glass and other prod products will directly aid in forest con can The drain on our forests timber limber cut plus loss from fire insects and diseases has been blen exceeding the growth by 50 per cent Naturally this is a condition that cannot connot con con- continue continue unabated Fire control refer refer- and insect control will be nn n a must in the postwar period Less wood will be utilized for heat heat- heating ling lug ing purposes purposes more more wood waste will willi i go BO into plywood and other products I to replace timber These will prove the answer to timber conservation to toa toa I a II large extent I New increased utilization of f wood and wood waste can provide an In in- industry In Industry of million dollars and of of- offer fer employment ment for addition addition- additional p I al men It is entirely possible that I the new industry will replace the i lumber industry as such making the I I byproducts products the backbone of the for ests S. on 1 N lumber Is the reduction of swelling I and shrinking characteristics of nor nor- mal wood This process alone will willI I I result in a tremendous saving In tn Inwood Inwood wood products The plywood Is not only fireproof but is moisture Plywood dates back hundreds of years but It was only when weather resistant weather glues fillies were developed that this ma ma- material maI material assumed major Importance as ns asa asa I a material to replace lumber for outdoor uses especially housing and farm structures and commercial r y i f S. S S.'S S 'S P S S. S S. S S.W. S W. W 4 5 f Whole hole forests of pine oak birch beech cedar and maple are going Into the gigantic crucible of war via the shipyards and other war plants Most of these logs formerly would have been waste Today due to chemurgic uses even the bark Is playing an important part wood products owe their origin to chemical or physical modification of the basic cellulose lignin units of minute wood structure These prod products acts base their invention on the knowledge that lignin can be plush plush- by chemical treatment and made to flow now It is now possible to mold these products into any shape sha pc or design desired In the past 70 per cent of the aver aver- average average age wood taken to the mills was waste Under present development most If It not all nil of this waste is noted This saving alone will w even the spread between the growth and un the drain upon the standing timber War has developed some unusual uses for wood products in every country In Europe factories are arc turning out textiles from wood smokeless powder shell casings molasses shoes imitation leathers and glycerine are also developed from wood wastes Europe has hos also proven that sugar suar and food can be extracted from wood Most of these unusual uses will not be carried into the postwar period Forests arc a n renewable resource with proper management and protection pro pro- protection they can be made to produce continuing crops nut Hut If it an 1111 abundant I dant slant and permanent timber supply is assured positive action will have to be bt taken tal on au nn Individual mil and n I wide nation scale Now that the thereal therral thereal real value vahl of timber has been real realized lied It will become commercially to practice rigid reforestation reforestation tation tn lion by individuals and nod govern govern- government ment |