Forest Product's Week - Supply And Demand

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Answer B - Twelve million acres, 47 percent of Kentucky’s 25,425,904 acres, are covered in forest. Kentucky lost more than 700,000 acres of forest between 1988 and 2004, mostly due to the conversion of forest for development purposes. Forest conversion is recognized as one of the most serious threats to forests in Kentucky.

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Answer A – Private landowners own 88% of the forest land in KY. County/Municipalities own 0.6%; the federal government owns 10%; and the state owns just 1.4%.

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Answer C - Carbon neutral refers to the generally accepted position that trees store carbon at the same rate as carbon is released from wood deterioration and destruction. Concrete and steel consume significantly higher amounts of energy during processing than wood, and plastic of course uses petroleum as its chemical basestock - hence much less carbon-neutral.

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Answer C - Seventy-five percent of the forestland in KY is composed of oak-hickory forest type. Pines make up less than 5%

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Answer B - Hardwoods include oaks, gums, maples, hickories and walnuts. Softwoods include pines, cedars, spruces, hemlocks, true firs, Douglas firs and redwoods.