ISSUE:

Wood products are both functional and beautiful, but are they environmentally friendly products?

FACTS:

Our forest products come from a renewable resource that grows and replenishes itself generation after generation.

Wood is durable and recyclable, as well as biodegradable. Finished wood products can last for many years, but wood – from the tree to the house – also returns to the earth as ashes or decaying material when its purpose is fulfilled.

New technology has eliminated virtually all wood processing waste. This means that all of the tree is used: bark, dust, chips,
slabs and lumber.

Tree tops and leaves left in the woods after harvesting provide wildlife habitat and nutrients for the new forest.

Wood is man’s preferred building material; and the production of wood products consumes far less energy and clean water than does the production of steel and other building materials.

Trees, like all green plants, use carbon in their life processes. The soaking up of carbon by trees from the atmosphere helps to lower greenhouse gas buildup and is called carbon sequestration.