Trees for example take decades to be usable for lumber but it only takes a few minutes to saw one down.
How does the industry maintain a balance when daily demand is constant?
Trees for example take decades to be usable for lumber but it only takes a few minutes to saw one down.
How does the industry maintain a balance when daily demand is constant?
They stager their crops.
Basically, it takes 20-30 years for a yellow pine to reach harvest. So they have lots of (huge) tracks that are growing, each lot is planted in sequential years- one lot is planted while another is harvested