Chapter 1-2 Flashcards
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Group of businesses
Industry
Activity of making, buying or selling goods and services
Business
Benefits from the forest
Tangible and Intangible
No monetary value and can directly or indirectly affect the quality of mans life.
Intangible benefits
Why is timber industry a sunset industry?
because of the lack of access to raw wood materials from natural forests by which they can process and sustain operations.
all industries that rely on access to forested areas, including but not limited to timber, mining, tourism, apiculture, wildflower picking, seed collecting and basic raw materials (LawInsider)
Forest Based Industries
Goods and services derived from the forest such as but not limited to timber, lumber, veneer, plywood, fiberboard, pulpwood, firewood, bark, tree top, resin gum, wood oil, honey, beeswax, nipa, rattan or other forest growth such as grass, shrub and flowering plant, the associated water, fish, game, scenic, historical, and educational (DAO. 1987-80, 1987).
Forest Product
Comprises Timber and Fuel wood. Fuelwood, Log, Lumber, Plywood, Veneer, Non-timber forest products, Blackboard (DENR-FMB).
Major Forest Products
those products use in raw form.
Ex. Logs, poles, piles, post, mine timber, railroad ties.
Primary wood products
those products that undergone further re-manufacturing.
Secondary wood products
These are reduced using machines or mechanical means.
Ex. Wooden chairs, cabinets, veneers, crates etc.
Mechanically reduced wood products
This are wood products derived by applying heat on wood like charcoal, (product of carbonization), wood tar and alcohol product of distillation.
Physically Reduced wood products
They are results of applying chemical methods of processing wood.
Examples are pulp and paper, fiberboard, and cellulosed-derived products.
Chemically reduced wood products
Forest products obtained from fruits, flowers, leaves, twigs, bark, root and wood of plants (except timber) and other products from animal and mineral origins (DENR-FASPS, 2020.
Minor forest products
the non-structural components of wood. They are typically concentrated in the heartwood and are often produced by the standing tree as defensive compounds to environmental stresses (Taylor et al., 2002).
Wood extractive
natural discharges of living trees and other forest growths induced by a natural or inflicted wound on the plant
Tree exudents
Resins (types)
Manila copal, dammar (dipterocard), Balau (apitong), Manila elemi (brea blanca)
types of tree exudents
Resin, gums, saps, latex, oleoresin
What flora family produces gutta percha?
Sapotaceae
What is the use of almaciga and resin?
The former is for the manufacture of paints and varnishes while the latter is valued for its essence in the manufacture of perfumes and similar products
chemically derived or reduced
Extracted products
Types of extractive products
Dyes
tannins
naval stores
essential oils
All biological materials and derivatives other than timber, which are extracted from forests for human use. Synonymous to Non-wood forest products (DENR-FMB, 2004).
Non-timber Forest Products
Wood material which include standing trees in a form suitable for construction, carpentry, joinery, or re conversion for manufacturing purposes.
Timber