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• Trees are the longest-living organisms
on earth.
http://www.treesaregood.com/funfacts/funfacts.aspx
• The Proverbial Woodchuck
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
About 700 pounds. Compared to beavers, groundhogs/woodchucks are not adept at
moving timber, although some will chew wood. (At Cornell, woodchucks that gnaw
their wooden nest boxes are given scraps of 2-by-4 lumber.) A wildlife biologist
once measured the inside volume of a typical woodchuck burrow and estimated that
if wood filled the hole instead of dirt, the industrious animal would have chucked
about 700 pounds' worth.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/96/2.1.96/facts.html
• Trees lower air temperature by evaporating
water in their leaves.
http://www.treesaregood.com/funfacts/funfacts.aspx
• The average tree in metropolitan areas survives
only about 8 years.
http://www.treesaregood.com/funfacts/funfacts.aspx
• A tree reaches its most productive stage of carbon
storage after about 10 years.
http://www.treesaregood.com/funfacts/funfacts.aspx
• Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree's age by its
rings. Tree rings provide precise information about environmental events,
including volcanic eruptions.
http://www.treesaregood.com/funfacts/funfacts.aspx
• Bamboo, although often tree-like, is actually not a species of tree.
http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/
• The name “Ironwood” is actually a slang term given to the hardest
wood of an area, region, or country. There are over 80 species of wood
in the world referred to as or having the word “Ironwood” in
them.
http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/
• The presence of lignin determines how hard or soft wood is. The more
lignin present, the harder the wood, and the less present, the softer the
wood.
http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/
• Hardwoods and softwoods are distinguished
from each other in a botanical manner, rather than in terms of end
use. Hardwood is from deciduous and evergreen broad-leafed trees,
and not always harder than softwood; for example, Balsa wood is a
hardwood.
http://www.woodforgood.com/about/005.html
• The bark of the Cork Oak is used to produce
cork wine stoppers. The species grows in Northwest Africa and Southwest
Europe with Algeria, Morocco, Portugal, and Spain manufacturing the majority
of the world's supply. Cork trees are stripped of their bark every 10 years
or so and will continue to grow for 150 years or more.
http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/
• The Oak is the official national tree of the USA. It is also the
species of tree struck by lightning the most.
http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/
• The Copaiba, nicknamed the “Diesel Tree,” grows in the Amazon
of South America, particularly in Brazil, and produces an oleoresin
called copaiba that is so much like diesel fuel it can be used as fuel
for diesel engines. On average a mature tree can produce approximately
14 gallons of “diesel” per year.
http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/
• If
you burn Ceylon Satinwood, the fumes will put humans to sleep and kill
canaries.
http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/
• For every 10,000 acorns that an Oak tree produces, only one will
become a tree.
http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/
• In a 25-acre plot of rain forest on the island of Borneo, approximately
700 different species of trees can be found.
http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/
• Approximately 1,182 different species of trees can be found in the
United States.
http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/
• In the Wasatch Mountains located in Utah, there exists a tree network
of Quaking Aspen growing from a single root system. It is genetically uniform
and acts as a single life form, thus changing the color and shedding the
leaves of all the trees in unison. The entire system covers approximately
106 acres and weighs about 6600 tons.
http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/
• Rubber trees on average yield about 4-5 pounds of rubber per year.
http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/
• A Sugar Maple tree can produce approximately 3 gallons of sap a day.
To make just one quart of maple syrup, it takes 11-13 gallons of sap.
http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/
• Scientists have
discovered than when forests become old and overcrowded, trees begin to use
more oxygen than they produce. Young, well-managed forests tend to be the
most efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen.
http://www.bwphdws.com/woodfacts/default.htm
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