Diamond Tropical Hardwoods

On our reforestation projects in Costa Rica we put in a lot of test plots.  These are areas randomly assigned (pick a number between 20...

How young can the teak be?   How soon do you get wood out of reforestation projects? Before my four children were born I was very proud of our trees.  Now the kids (not so small any more) are what make me the most proud. Kids and trees are very similar—if you treat them right, provide them direction and support (we call this pruning and thinning in silvics=silviculture or the care and maintenance of trees) then they grow straight and true. No more about the kids—they are doing fine on their...

We had a nice drive today on one of our first reforestation projects in Costa Rica where we planted ornamentals and bamboo to anchor down...