Division of Forestry Strategic Direction
Statewide Forest Strategy 2010
Statewide Forest Assessment 2010
Forest Sustainability Framework
Statewide Forest Plan 2004
B8. Trend: Efficiency in use of wood has increased.
Comment #: 1
More should be done in the use of waste.
Comment #: 2
Taking so much more of the tree depletes "natural fertilizer."
Comment #: 3
Same response as B7
Comment #: 4
This only encourages more wood production.
Comment #: 5
Good
Comment #: 6
Account for ? plan ____ need less areas for industrial forestry.
Comment #: 7
"Can" doesn't mean it is.
Comment #: 8
This needs to be communicated to the general public.
Comment #: 9
Sawdust for animal bedding is great.
Comment #: 10
If processing and harvesting we more centralized a market for biofuels could open up. Producing electricity requires a uniform product and a steady supply.
Comment #: 11
If true, and it is, why address the issue?
Comment #: 12
a concern is that less "waste" may be left in the forest to replenish nutrients and maintain productivity.
Comment #: 13
good!
Comment #: 14
To what end?
Comment #: 15
More search should be done to use more of harvested trees, ie branches.
Comment #: 16
Getting' much better.
Comment #: 17
By products of industry not by products of consumer.
Comment #: 18
To be efficicent at something that shouldn't be done is not to be efficient in the long run.
Comment #: 19
See comments of A5
Comment #: 20
Same comment as B7.
Comment #: 21
Some comment as B7
Comment #: 22
Again, if the forests are managed properly 9sustainably, ecolgically) the market will take care of itself.
Comment #: 23
This item will take care of itself don't waste your time.
Comment #: 24
There still is too much waste in our area
Comment #: 25
the industry has been doing a pretty good job
Comment #: 26
The industry will have to do this, if supply is law! Not a DNR problem.
Comment #: 27
This is probably already being done but can use help.
Comment #: 28
Let idnustry deal with this.
Comment #: 29
Private industry can do that.
Comment #: 30
No part of a tree needs to be wasted, as there are needs for everything today - somewhere.
Comment #: 31
We need to encourage this.
Comment #: 32
Less waste is a good thing.
Comment #: 33
This may be addressed elsewhere.
Comment #: 34
This will take care of itself in private sector - Same ans. As B7.
Comment #: 35
Don't call wastes "By Products is better." Nothing is a waste, even sewage is a fertilizer.
Comment #: 36
This is your course to B7.
Comment #: 37
The market take care of this don't think it needs to be addressed in a gov "plan."
Comment #: 38
A lot of short logs go to waste and cull(?) logs.
Comment #: 39
Machine processed harvested wood is great for safety and speed of logging some species, but ruins or damages others making them difficult to use.
Comment #: 40
There is a business up here that mixes sawdust with other stuff to make pellets for home heating.
Comment #: 41
Should be more use of smaller limbs and branches
Comment #: 42
Industry can take care of it
Comment #: 43
Private action!
Comment #: 44
Greater utilization means we often under-estimate volume
Comment #: 45
We must address the value of material left on the forest floor.
Comment #: 46
Our capitalistic system will continue to find ways to efficiently use our forest products
Comment #: 47
This is good but not necessary to the plan.
Comment #: 48
Harvesting efficiency needs to be improved!!
Comment #: 49
Impvoed technology is nice, but we still need more forests.
Comment #: 50
Many farmers use sawdust for agricultural (animal) bedding
Comment #: 51
Waste not want no!
Comment #: 52
"statewide forest plan" - I can't make a connection here.
Comment #: 53
Don't know how you would address this. It's a fact. This trend has increased the need for more people to assist industry in improving efficiency.
Comment #: 54
This efficiency only makes up for a small part of the demand.
Comment #: 55
The private sector will fine tune this on their own- its $ in their pocket to do so.
Comment #: 56
People like wood, even if it is composites.
Comment #: 57
People like wood, even if it is composites.
Comment #: 58
More and more should be done in improving technology!
Comment #: 59
One note of caution though, this removal of more of the resource for use will also cause a removal of more of the nutrients from the site and may cause our management trends to shift
Comment #: 60
Lets find a market for basswood pulp!
Comment #: 61
THese are the alternatives that need to continue to be utilitized.
Comment #: 62
The work of the Forest Products Laboratory (located in Madison) in increasing efficienct use of forest products should be recognized.
Comment #: 63
I think we need to educate the public that these other options are out there. so much of the forest products are left in the woods because the loggers don't want to bother with it.
Comment #: 64
Reiteration of the previous comment!
Comment #: 65
Important trend to producers, but irrelevant to forest managers. B2 is the important issue to forest managers.
Comment #: 66
I take a different slant on this. I think that"slash" and course woody debris left behind are important for returning nutrients to the soil and providing ground cover and habitat for wildlife after timber harvest. Maybe in this instance efficiancy might be too much of a good thing?
Comment #: 67
Same as B7
Comment #: 68
We should watch how the efficiency of harvesting the wood is done. It is great that they are using more of the wood they cut down, but what are their practices in getting that wood? In my experience, it seems like they are extremely wasteful and assisting in the devastation, ravaging of our forests.
Comment #: 69
This is another non-issue I think. It makes some difference in harvesting, for instance. Fewer people are working in the woods, and the operations are more mechanized. However, the operations are much more safe too. If the issue somehow implies there are implications to management issues, then it should be addressed there. For instance, I can see where whole tree harvesting can lead to nutrient depeletion over the long-term, but this is a management problem. Whole tree harvesting also implies clear-cutting, again that is a management problem. You might as well say that Amish loggers working with horses is also important, because that is also happening. I really don't think this merits standing alone as an important statewide plan issue.
Comment #: 70
Research & development needed for new products based on forest waste.
Comment #: 71
Is whole tree harvest the answer?
Comment #: 72
Since the forests are a limited resource, maximum utilization is an important issue.
Comment #: 73
Since the forests are a limited resource, maximum utilization is an important issue.
Comment #: 74
MOST PEOPLE IN EVERY STAGE OF TIMBER PRODUCTION ,HARVEST ,AND LUMBER MILLING ALREADY REALIZE THE VALUE OF THE RESOURCE SO IT IS UNNECESSARY TO CREATE NEW REGULATIONS TO MAKE THEM DO SOMETHING THEY ARE READY DO A PRETTY GOOD JOB OF ALREADY.
Comment #: 75
Speaking of saw dust. Why in the hell do we allow chipping operations? They are probably the fricking destructive thing there is. First you take away the natural nutient recycling and then you have the erosion on top of it. Stupid!!
Comment #: 76
Greater efficiency is use of trees also means less is being left to rebuild the soils. This issue should considered
Comment #: 77
If you cut it, you might as well use it all.
Comment #: 78
Keep it up.
Comment #: 79
Good idea however whole tree harvesting leaves no course woody debris and dimishes nutient levels.
Comment #: 80
Although they may be more expensive, wood that is composed of compressed sawdust and plastic could replace the need for wood in construction.
Comment #: 81
Although they may be more expensive, wood that is composed of compressed sawdust and plastic could replace the need for wood in construction.
Comment #: 82
It has and that's good, but not a forest plan issue.
Comment #: 83
Great, but how about decreasing the use?
Comment #: 84
Yes, relate to B8
Comment #: 85
Increaseing efficiency and recycling efforts will lesson other problems. Like lessonsing the impact from the growing demand for timber for example.
Comment #: 86
How resourceful...
Comment #: 87
see above
Comment #: 88
Not really a management issue, but it is a good thing.
Comment #: 89
Less waste in any manufacturing process equals less cost for production and fewer problems with pollution resulting from discarding that waste.
Comment #: 90
The free-market should drive new technologies in wood processing along with state sponsored university research. I do not think DNR money should go towards this area.
Comment #: 91
But what kind of science are you using
to ascertain that a good nutrient/organic
base is left after harvest?
Comment #: 92
Yes, B7 could be addressed within the context of B8.
Comment #: 93
We are an immensely wasteful society. A combination of incentives and penalties need to be in place and enforced if we hope to change wasteful behavior.
Comment #: 94
This is a mixed bag. I agree that maximum use should occur of all forest products removed from the harvest site. But some coarse woody and perhaps other harvest debris should be left on site. This debris is important for many species, and for soil replenishment.
Comment #: 95
I think the focus of the plan should be on the State's forests, not on industry efficiency and innovation, unless it can be tied, without too much speculation, on what State forests could/should be managed for.
Comment #: 96
we are using for synthetic wood than reg. wood on most items we make. wood is however still being used for paper and alot of other things.
Comment #: 97
wood is being used for everything we should find some other products other than wood
Comment #: 98
The more efficient wood is used, the less wood we have to take from the forest.
Comment #: 99
Again, appears tangential & not directly related
to mgmt of state forests.
Comment #: 100
Again - this seems like an important trend but not one that can be usefully addressed in a forest plan.
Comment #: 101
Acknowledgement of this topic for educational purposes should be provided.
Comment #: 102
Let the private sector adress this as it is thier livelyhood. They can do it better than a gov. agency.
Comment #: 103
Discuss "messy" forestry
Last Revised: Monday July 30 2007
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