. The Caribbean forester. Forests and forestry Caribbean Area Periodicals; Forests and forestry Tropics Periodicals. 54 Caribbean Forester. Figure 3. — Utilization in Trinidad. Upper left. Teak (Tectona grandis) logs being delivered to Brickfield Forest Industries. Upper right. Fence post treating plant, Brickfield. Lower left. Fab- rication of fence from teak thinnings, Brickfield. Lower right. Pressure treating cylinder. Fort of Spain. teak. The oldest plantations are 12 years old, with 465 acres planted to date. The publicly owned forest reserves of Trinidad amount to over 328,000 acres or
. The Caribbean forester. Forests and forestry Caribbean Area Periodicals; Forests and forestry Tropics Periodicals. 54 Caribbean Forester. Figure 3. — Utilization in Trinidad. Upper left. Teak (Tectona grandis) logs being delivered to Brickfield Forest Industries. Upper right. Fence post treating plant, Brickfield. Lower left. Fab- rication of fence from teak thinnings, Brickfield. Lower right. Pressure treating cylinder. Fort of Spain. teak. The oldest plantations are 12 years old, with 465 acres planted to date. The publicly owned forest reserves of Trinidad amount to over 328,000 acres or 26 percent of the land area. From these forests 3,450,100 cubic feet of timber, 904,700 cubic feet of fine wood, and 227,700 cubic feet of other split wood were cut in 1959. The total sawtimber cut from all lands amounts to million board feet. Nearly all of this was consumed locally. An addi- tional 1,505,000 cubic feet of coniferous tim- ber, mostly from British Honduras, was im- ported. A pressure treating plant is in operation in Port of Spain using Wolman salts as a pre-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Southern Forest Experiment Station (New Orleans, La. ). Rio Piedras, P. R. : Tropical Forest Experiment Station, United States Forest Service
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