Sentence examples for native timber from inspiring English sources

Much native timber became woodchips for export, mainly to Japan.

The house was made almost entirely of local materials, including native timber and, on the exterior, sheets of corrugated metal.

In the main house, the living and dining rooms are carpeted; the kitchen floor and cabinets are of native timber.

VicForests does not have a clear understanding of the department's role as a regulator of native timber harvesting.

Our results demonstrate the potential for tropical native timber plantations to contribute to the retention of biodiversity.

All share a certain grace of design and the use of sustainable native timber, and some have clever tricks like built-in iPod docks and sleek storage solutions.

Finally, mapping out all regional ecosystems in which a native forest timber harvesting is permitted was based on the listing provided by the native forest code of practice (DNRM 2014).

It guaranteed secure supplies for timber companies which, in return, agreed to shift their sources from native trees to plantation timber; and it protected regions of native timbers with "high conservation value".

Groups including the Australian Forest Products Association and parts of the seafood industry are also preparing submissions to the review arguing that environmental campaigns against companies selling products made from native timbers or "unsustainable" fishing amount to a "secondary boycott" and should be unlawful.

The bark from the local stringybark trees (Eucalyptus obliqua) was used in the construction of winter huts, and stones and native timbers were used to form tools. Food was also present, and cossid moth larvae along with other species of plants and animals were collected.

The impacts of the earlier planting were significant as a very large volume of poorly and rapidly grown wood, mostly radiata pine, began to replace the high-quality native timbers that had been used so successfully for the previous hundred years.