If you were to come to Ireland today and look at Irish forestry that this is growing here, you would presume that the Sitka Spruce was a native tree of Ireland. This is because this tree is grown in abundance across Ireland these days. The Spruce is one of those trees that suits the environment in which it is growing. It can grow on a variety of different soils and can take the punishment of the westerly Atlantic winds and storms that batter the western coastline. The Spruce is also a fast growing tree which means that there can be a timber harvest available after only 35 to 40 years.
In the past, we have had many different types of tree that has grown naturally here including certain types of Oak, the Mountain Ash, the Scots Pine, and the Blackthorn. Many of these trees were cleared to make the land suitable for agricultural purposes. Ireland was once covered with trees and it now has only a small fraction of the numbers that it once had. But there are plans in Ireland to increase Irish forestry. Obviously, it is never going to get to the level of coverage that once was here, but I think the industry is getting stronger because of the changing nature of the forestry business.
Over the many years that we have been in business, Forest Ireland has noticed a dramatic shift in the purpose of growing Irish forestry. When I started out in this business, a lot of the trees that were coming out of the Irish forests were going straight into pulpwood production. Pulpwood is responsible for many different paper products. With the demand for newspapers and many other paper products declining in recent years, there has been a large shift away from that market. This is obviously because the electronic media has taken away the need for these paper products.
The shift away from placing this extracted timber into pulpwood products has happened over a number of years. This can be seen in the lessening of thinning projects that have been undertaken in Ireland for a few years now. Tree thinning is the process where most of the timber that goes into making pulpwood comes from. These are the trees that are not going to grow in to the best quality timber and are removed at an early stage to make way for the better stems in the crop. Today, these thinned timbers go into a process known as bio chipping. These biochips can be used in furnaces to heat schools, factories, and even homes.
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