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In 2024 it won UK Tree of the Year. [1] It is a sessile oak (Quercus petraea), thought to be at least 400 years old. It is hidden within a Sitka spruce plantation, on the Achnacarry estate, near Loch Lochy.
The Spruce Production Division was a unit of the United States Army established in 1917 to produce high-quality Sitka spruce timber and other wood products needed to make aircraft for the United States' efforts in World War I. The division was part of the Army Signal Corps's Aviation Section.
The San Juan Spruce is a Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) tree located in the San Juan Valley of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Until July 2016 it was the second largest known Sitka spruce tree by volume, [ 2 ] surpassed only by the Queets Spruce in Washington , United States .
In 2022, the UK produced 3,145,000 cubic metres of sawn wood, 3,466,000 cubic metres of wood-based panels and 3,462,000 tonnes of paper and paperboard. The UK does not produce enough timber to satisfy domestic demand, and the country imports 80% of its timber and paper from abroad, as the world's second largest timber importer after China. [33]
European spruce - used throughout construction, panelling and cladding; Larch - cladding and boats; Lodgepole pine - roofing, flooring and in making chipboard and particle board [8] Monterey pine; Parana pine - stair treads and joinery (critically endangered) Scots pine - construction industry, mostly for interior work; Sitka spruce [9]
Logo used from 2006 to 2015. Gumtree was founded in March 2000 by Michael Pennington and Simon Crookall as a local London classified ads and community site, designed to connect Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans who were either planning to move, or had just arrived in the city, and needed help getting started with accommodation, employment and meeting new people.
Large sitka spruce tree at Harris Creek on Vancouver Island. Closeup of the Harris Creek Sitka Spruce. The Harris Creek Sitka Spruce is a large Sitka spruce tree, about 4 metres (13 ft) in diameter, [1] near the creek bed of Harris Creek, off the Pacific Marine Road between Port Renfrew, BC and Honeymoon Bay, BC on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia.
Spruce-pine-fir (SPF) is a classification of lumber that can be traded on commodities exchanges. In Canada , and parts of the United States , most of the spruce tree species , pine tree species , and fir tree species share similar physical and mechanical characteristics, to the point where lumber derived from any of these species are ...