Pine trees
Despite what you see at Christmas, Pine trees are not reserved exclusively for decorating houses, hotels and
shopping malls. Pine trees are extremely valuable resources for a variety of industries, especially those in the paper
industry which use the trees' timber and wood pulp.
Pine Tree Logging
Other popular uses for Pine trees include:
·Wood: Used for building furniture, homes, coffins, window frames, and floors
·Cones: Crafters love Pine cones to decorate mantles, doors and tables
·Needles: Used to fill mattresses and pillows
·Resin: Good source of turpentine and can be used to waterproof items
Pine tree resin can also be heated and used as glue. In colonial America, settlers used hardened Pine resin as dental
fillings.
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Author:
Kristjan Mägi
VLE 1-12
13.02.2013
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