[Sca-cooks] Forest management (was ovens)

[MD Smith]

Thanks Phlip! This is exactly my point - it is the managed forests that 
are providing firewood as well as building timber, not the "dead and down".

MD/Marged

Phlip wrote:

> Standard wisdom is that a properly managed 5 acre wood lot can provide
> sufficient wood for a family's needs. This refers to a temperate forest, and
> a family which uses wood almost exclusively for heating and cooking, and
> requires occasional thinning of diseased or otherwise "worthless" trees, but
> also allows harvesting of some trees for other uses, such as furniture or
> fenceposts.