new coppice data in agroforestry news!
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Ethan Roland
Jul 7, 2008, 10:30:15 PM7/7/08
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howdy all -
ethan roland here from appleseed permaculture -- i'm just looking
through the most recent issue of agroforestry news from martin
crawford in the UK (you can subscribe to this sweet quarterly through
the permaculture activist fro $20 a year or something). it's volume 16
number 3, main topic = ostrich fern, but there's a quick few pieces of
data in a news summary article called "burning wood: issues for the
future" that go like this:
"a 10 year fuelwood coppice rotation of mixed deciduous trees produces
about 1 tonne/acre/year (or 2.3 tonnes/ha/year), so 8 acres of coppice
would be required to produce 8 tonnes of wood per year. Even the
fastest growing trees - alder, willow, poplar, eucalyptus - would
require 6 acres to produce 8 tonnes of wood per year."
that's british tonnes - can anyone do the conversion?
anyone else have good data like this?
cheers,
ethan
ethan roland here from appleseed permaculture -- i'm just looking
through the most recent issue of agroforestry news from martin
crawford in the UK (you can subscribe to this sweet quarterly through
the permaculture activist fro $20 a year or something). it's volume 16
number 3, main topic = ostrich fern, but there's a quick few pieces of
data in a news summary article called "burning wood: issues for the
future" that go like this:
"a 10 year fuelwood coppice rotation of mixed deciduous trees produces
about 1 tonne/acre/year (or 2.3 tonnes/ha/year), so 8 acres of coppice
would be required to produce 8 tonnes of wood per year. Even the
fastest growing trees - alder, willow, poplar, eucalyptus - would
require 6 acres to produce 8 tonnes of wood per year."
that's british tonnes - can anyone do the conversion?
anyone else have good data like this?
cheers,
ethan
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