Japanese Have Been Producing Wood for 700 Years Without Cutting Down Trees
24th February 2023
Daisugi is an ancient Japanese forestry technique in which planted cedars are pruned in a special way to produce “shoots” that eventually become perfect, straight, knot-free lumber.
This is an ancient method, developed in the 14th century, which was originally used by people living in the Kitayama region of Japan because saplings were lacking.
The terrain in the region is very mountainous, and the steep slopes make planting and caring for trees very difficult, so arborists used the daisugi technique not only to reduce the number of plantations but also to produce denser wood in a much shorter time.
February 24th, 2023 at 19:04
And yet they have been buying logs by the boatload since the 70s….
This article makes it sound like foresters like myself are retarded neandertals that perform timber harvests and wreck the environment because we don’t have a mutant cedar forest that can sprout school-marms in 20 years.
F the Nips and F the author. Really, they do some neat stuff that doesn’t scale up at all.
February 25th, 2023 at 07:25
The article was, of course, generated by some envoiro-Nazi proceeding from the premise that We Suck But Foreigners Rock. (No mention of the fact that Evil Europeans have been pollarding and coppicing trees for time out of mind.) Still, it had some interesting information … or so I thought.