Villa estates were established on heavier, richer soils, sometimes on land recently won by forest clearance, itself a result of the enormous new demand for building timber from the army and the new towns and for fuel for domestic heating and for public baths.
The wood had to be managed again, as it had been for centuries, by coppicing or pollarding the trees on regular cycles for fencing, wheels and furniture, thus encouraging the underwood, and by leaving some trees to grow tall for building timber.
According to Eiríks saga rauða ("Erik the Red's Saga"), while returning to Greenland in about 1000, Leif was blown off course and landed on the North American continent, where he observed forests with excellent building timber and grapes, which led him to call the new region Vinland ("Land of Wine").
The trees furnished fuelwood, building timber and wood products for many crafts.
(ii) It appeared in the Forestry Compendium Global Module CAB Internationall 2000) species selection module as a species planted for fuelwood, round wood, sawn or hewn building timber, wood-based materials or pulp.
That in turn was to compel Athens to import quantities of the ship-building timber it lacked, a major factor in Athenian imperial thinking.
Macedon had ship-building timber and great natural resources (though few outlets to the sea because Greek colonial poleis stood in the way).
If silver was one coveted commodity, ship-building timber was another, and the desire for the latter was a large part of Athens's motive for getting a foothold in the Amphipolis region.
LONDON — Remarkable documents containing suggestions for attacks on public buildings, timber yards and cotton mills were read at Bow Street Police Court yesterday [May 2] during the trial of seven Suffragettes and two men on charges of conspiring to do malicious damage to property.
Under New York City's building code, timbers that size can remain exposed, because their susceptibility to fire is extremely low.
