Planting Hawaii's Woods
RENEWABLE RESOURCES MEAN JOBS
Concept
ALOHA,
I am grateful for your interest. The idea is to develop a market for one or two significant species having use as value added products in homebuilding.
These would be non-invasive species that could mature in thirty years or so, could be treated against termites, and milled into door and window frames, baseboards, trimboards, cabinetry and flooring stock.
It is not difficult to own a small sawmill, and to create these products for yourself, if you have the desire and enough tools. There may also be co-op mills within neighborhoods.
If plenty of us folks develop productive woodlots
If plenty of us folks develop productive woodlots
there could become enough volume to warrant
a small mill operation. People buy lumber from the mill and turn it into useful products.
Jobs are created because atmospheric carbon was stored in the form of a tree.
a small mill operation. People buy lumber from the mill and turn it into useful products.
Jobs are created because atmospheric carbon was stored in the form of a tree.
During the past decade my work has involved restoring the soils on a twenty acre parcel of degraded cane land in Kaiwiki, mauka Wainaku. I did this by planting trees. The twenty years prior to that my experience was with bulldozed and ripped pahoehoe lands in Puna. Trees do well there as well.
Maybe you have a project in mind that I might help with?
Give Trees A Chance-Plant A House
Maybe you have a project in mind that I might help with?
Give Trees A Chance-Plant A House
