As conventional farming became economically viable, the technique was largely forgotten. Coppicing, more generally, is similarly in decline after playing a role in human civilization worldwide since at least the Neolithic era. The small-diameter wood harvested from coppicing was used for a variety of tasks, such as making tool handles and goods like baskets, building homes and furniture, and burning for fuel.
Jacke believes that coppicing could legitimately be called the first form of agriculture in Europe, starting in the Stone Age and continuing well past the Middle Ages. As the industrial revolution took off, large logs became of greater value, and the horsepower to move them emerged. Timber forestry began to replace coppicing as land management goals changed. But the ecological benefits of stump-grown trees suggest the practice is worth revisiting, experts say.
For one thing, according to Jacke, recycling recent carbon from young trees that quickly regrow could provide a stabilizing counterbalance to putting ancient carbon into the atmosphere.
Researchers at SUNY Syracuse and elsewhere, for example, are investigating whether coppiced poplar and willow trees could be used for biofuel. How to spend the holiday season in Southern California. A wide variety of evergreens, shipped in weekly along with custom flocking and flame proofing, wreaths and garlands.
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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet n. On watch in the fir tree early the third afternoon, Alec saw Stamie emerge though the postern with a large basket on her back and set off into the woods.
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There were deodars, Douglas firs , casuarinas, gum trees, eucalypti, hibiscus, cedars, and other trees, generally of a moderate size, for their number prevented their growth. A bit farther off, nearly hidden in a stand of billowy firs , was a doorless garage, in which he could see a large tractor with a yellow plow on the front.
But this forest was only composed of coniferae, such as deodaras, already recognized by Herbert, and Douglas pine, similar to those which grow on the northwest coast of America, and splendid firs , measuring a hundred and fifty feet in height.
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