Sitka spruce in Podcasts
conceptA tree species native to North America, widely used in Irish forestry.
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Sitka Spruce, the amazing timber tree, tells the story of a tree that is delighted to be cut down and follows it on its journey to the sawmill and beyond.
And if you like, to greenwash the timber industry, specifically the Sitka spruce industry.
Start though by telling me about Sitka Spruce, The Amazing Timber Tree, which is a children's book which is causing controversy.
They say that the forestry industry learned from previous policies when planting spruce.
What the book fails to mention is the well-documented serious negative ecological impacts of the Sitka spruce monoculture forestry model and the anger and grief that Irish people feel that our native woodlands have been replaced by this lifeless alien conifer forest.
What it does is it paints a lovely rosy picture of the Sitka spruce tree in a forest, seeing abundant wildlife around it.
Sitka spruce, the amazing timber tree, was distributed to primary schools across Ireland.
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