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Originally Posted by Betonov
And you don't have only 5'' and saplings in one hectare, you have mixed sizes. Trees that are too small this year will be good next year and so on.
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I used the 5 inch diameter due to the fact that it only takes 25 years. Those 22 inchers take a century to grow, which only excacerbates the supply problem if you are going to wait to harvest them.
Assuming what you said is correct about 200 million trees, that does not even come close to compensating for the necessary consumption of 2.85 billion required to supply one quarter of American families with 2 cords per season. North America would be completely deforested within a decade.