75 percent of exclusive hardwood may be illegally harvested

Re:75 percent of exclusive hardwood may be illegally harvested by noah_buddy on Thursday October 26, 2023 @03:46PM (#38030799)

Or if there’s a way to ruin the wood for woodworking without killing the tree itself. It seems like you would need to do something really clever. Inject it with capsaicin?

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Re:75 percent of exclusive hardwood may be illegally harvested by wxnx on Thursday October 26, 2023 @04:27PM (#38031295)

Tree spiking is one example of this. It's so common as to be illegal in the United States [1]. Unfortunately, without strict worker protections, it's conceivable that workers would be the ones to pay for their employers' (or their upstream suppliers') illegal actions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_spiking

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Re:75 percent of exclusive hardwood may be illegally harvested by jrace on Thursday October 26, 2023 @04:47PM (#38031497)

It's not just conceivable, it is real.

Workers in the mill are the ones who will die or suffer significant trauma when the blade hits the spike.

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Re:75 percent of exclusive hardwood may be illegally harvested by wxnx on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:28PM (#38043482)

Eh, with one confirmed injury, I'm comfortable calling it "conceivable". The testimony of the injured worker in that case even reflects the fact that a spiked tree does not guarantee injury or death to the operator -- indeed, first there seems to be substantial damage to the machinery, and only then, a risk to the operator [1]:

> Alexander later filed a lawsuit against Louisiana-Pacific claiming that the band saw had been weakened from previous strikes with nails, but that he was forced to work with the saw or face dismissal.

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