Klarinet Archive - Posting 000810.txt from 2001/11

From: "Gene Nibbelin" <gnibbelin@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] mpingo
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:28:03 -0500

60 years for softwood building timber??? Can this be correct? Southern
pine, which I believe is used for a lot of housing, matures a lot sooner
than 60 years. Construction timber up North or from mountainous areas
(colder climate) of course, grows more slowly.

Not a botanist or lumberjack.

Gene N.

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Sears [mailto:dsears@-----.net]
Subject: Re: [kl] mpingo

Have you checked out this website?
The African Blackwood Conservation Project
http://www.blackwoodconservation.org/
You can learn a lot about the wood and the trees from that website, although
I think they are interested in planting trees only in Africa. Sixty years
before harvesting mpingo makes a pretty long range project, but no longer
than some of the commercial softwood timber that houses are made of. If no
one has done it yet, I guess the first step would be figuring out what part
of Australia has the right climate and soil.

--Doug

Gavin Rebetzke wrote:
I was wondering, has anyone planted trees useful for harvesting clarinet
timber? Some folk have sucessfully planted reed cane somewhere down south
here in Australia, but I've never heard of anyone planting mpingo or some
other specie. There is quite a bit of interest here at the moment about
agro-forestry and planting hardwood trees for harvest in 20-30 years time
(long-term investment!). I was wondering about clarinet timber instead of
investing in superannuation, but I know not a thing about the possibilities
or impossibilities as yet.

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