Nicely put Burnham. Silly indeed when you think about it. I never have understood either. In Idaho it seems like they have a choice to harvest or let it burn. Our state land has been seeing alot of thinning and selective type cuts. Do not hardly see any logging tracks in the fed land any more.
As masts
During the age of sail, tall white pines with high quality wood were known as mast pines. Marked by agents of the Crown in colonial times with the broad arrow, they were reserved for the British Royal Navy.
The British built special barge-like vessels which could carry up to 50 pine...
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