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October 25, 2007

Don't Forget The Forest

According to Presidential Proclamation, the week beginning on the third Sunday of October of each year is designated as National Forest Products Week.

So today I am going to try to come up with the A-Z of forest products (products that can come from forests as opposed to traditional farming)... some are a bit of a stretch, but this is nowhere near a complete list, especially when you start looking at the products that can be made from the products you get from forests... Now here we go!

• A:Adhesives
  
• B:Boards, Books, Baseball bats, Berries, Boats, Baskets
  
• C:Cellulose, Cardboard, Cutting Boards, Cider, Cork, Chopsticks
  
• D:Dyes
  
• E:Energy, Extracts, Egg Cartons
  
• F:Firewood, Furniture, Flooring, Fruit, Fragrances
  
• G:Grocery Bags, Glue, Gum, Gin (Juniper berries)
  
• H:Hockey Sticks, Hides, Handles
  
• I:Insulation, Inks
  
• J:Jewelry Boxes
  
• K:Kitchen Cabinets
  
• L: Lumber, Log Cabins, Latex
  
• M: Mulch, Maple Syrup, Mushrooms, Medicine, Meat
  
• N:Newspapers, Nuts
  
• O:Oxygen, Oils
  
• P: Paper, Plywood, Pencils, Paneling, Planks
  
• Q:Quinine (Tonic, to go with your gin)
  
• R:Resin, Rosin (for your stringed instrument), Rayon, Rubber
  
• S:Stringed Instruments, Stamps, Salad bowls, Seeds
  
• T:Truffles, Turpentine, Toilet paper, Totem poles, Toothpicks
  
• U:Umbrella handles
  
• V:Vitamins, Veneer
  
• W:Wood, Walnuts, Wild game
  
• X:Xmas Trees
  
• Y:Yo-yos
  
• Z:Zōri (草履, traditional Japanese sandals)
  

Posted by sorsha at October 25, 2007 1:19 AM