"If you look back historically at what has caused humanity to make its largest investments in exploration and in transportation, it has been going after resources, whether it's the Europeans going after the spice routes or the American settlers looking toward the west for gold, oil, timber or land, " Mr Diamandis explained.
Timber is sold either for pulp used in paper processes or as saw-timber for construction.
He hauled timber or pulpwood out of the mountains in a flat bed truck.
The answer is not to promote boycotts of tropical timber or insist, as the Forest Stewardship Council does, that the same forest management rules apply to planted softwood as rainforests.
If salmon are listed, Mr Locke said, hardly a housing development, timber sale or road project in the state could proceed without considering its impact on fish.
"It's not our long-term solution because of the competition with feed, and fuel competition, but it is prompting us to put into place a refueling infrastructure that could be used with cellulosic ethanol, " made from other types of plant material such as timber waste or switch grass.
Pile: long heavy section of timber, concrete or metal, driven into the earth or seabed as support for another structure.
After a hurricane, for example, large trees that are snapped or sheared often become pulp wood rather than saw-timber, reducing their value by two-thirds or more.
Joe is the second-largest land owner in Florida, owning approximately 567, 000 acres of land primarily in Northwest Florida it is either developing or using to grow and sell timber.
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Several timber backdrops at the range were partially or completely burned, but because the facility sits in wetlands next to a lagoon, the fires weren't a threat to Naval Base Ventura County at Point Mugu, said spokeswoman Kimberly Gearhart.
Some take two or three hundred years to fully mature - and no timber licence lasts that long - so the diversity of the forest is being eroded.
Imagine gridlock in the markets for gas, timber, coal, metals, fertiliser, bandwidth or indeed any of the products Enron deals in.
This timber can now be sold on the domestic market or exported.
It is made from a collection of purpose-built black timber containers that can be easily disassembled and relocated to playgrounds, allotments or youth centres in the area when the project is done.
In the years since, private timber companies have found it increasingly attractive to sell their land for conservation easements rather than chase the harvest or sell the land for private development.
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