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been a number of years. He realized the need
His pine,
cutting marketable timber for
for restocking the land to produce timber for future cutting.
choice for new growth was
the mainstay of a virtually insatiable market for pulp and lumber.
Much of Heath’s land was overgrown in scrub oak of little market value. It occurred to him that he might create a marketabble product! for the oak and at the same timej clear the land for planting lobkilly pine. He decided to turn the dak into charcoal, a commodity long: in demand for varied commercial uses ‘and more recently supplying a wide market (in briquet: form) for the all-American sumrher sport of backyard cooking.
Scrub oak and worthless scrap from
previous timber operations are used to feed the two ten-cord kilns
that Heath has built. Each kiln will produce several tons of charcoal at a bum. He sacks the
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