"Bark bark bark bark!" yell the dogs.
"After boiling for five hours the bark fibre becomes soft and can be pounded into the paper pulp by the watermill," he explains.
The other important NWFPs are bamboo and rattan and to a lesser extent tanning barks, fibres for rope-making, scented woods and barks, gums, resins, roofing materials, dyeing materials, birds nests, honey and beeswax, lac and medicinal plants.
Bark and fibre: Fibres are important and wildly used as binding and building material and several other domestic needs i.e. making of mats, baskets etc. Implements: Hoes, axes and spear handles, pestles, cooking sticks are among the common domestic implements made from the wood.
Cedar bark provided fibres for clothing, baskets were made of cedar and spruce, and alder and cedar were carved into masks and other ceremonial objects, including spectacular totem poles.
The Chinese began using bark, bamboo fibres, hemp and flax to mill the first reams almost 2,000 years ago, but it took centuries for paper to envelop the world, first taking in Japan, then Central Asia and Egypt.
Non-timber goods and services from forested lands, for example, include food (nuts, roots, plants), materials (bark, plant fibres, etc)., CO2 absorption, habitat and recreational services.
The masks of the Tanga Islands were ephemeral constructions of bark and fibre over bamboo frames.
The components of complex items were skillfully fitted together and lashed with cordage made from various types of vegetable fibre, such as hibiscus bark, pandanus-leaf fibre, coconut fibre, or banyan bark.
Primitive netting was fabricated with thread or cord made from a wide range of vegetable fibres (bark, bast, leaves, roots, and stems) and animal tissues (hide, sinew, hair, intestine, and baleen).
