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Sentence Examples The two basic categories of wood used most often in wood working projects are hardwood and softwood. All types of lumber, both hardwood and softwood, are sorted by quality during the milling process. The Kumaun and Garhwal hills of present-day Uttar Pradesh contain the best stands of softwood in the subcontinent. In the Sikhote Alin, a forested range north of Vladivostok, I found mixed hard and softwood, rather small timber. The feller buncher operator makes separate sorts for softwood and the major hardwood species, which are each chipped separately. While blueberries are propagated commercially by tissue culture, they can be propagated by hardwood or softwood cuttings. These cuttings are then treated in the same way as softwood cuttings and can be taken from mid-summer to early autumn. The best time to take cuttings is during the softwood stage in spring or early summer, when stems are still green and pliable. The easiest way to propagate lavender is to take softwood cuttings in the Spring. The softwood is processed by single grip processors, which also are owned by other contractors. Blast II is a cluster of elongated diamond shapes in two colors of painted softwood that fan out irregularly from a point on the wall. In these areas, most of the forest softwood is now dead, creating openings in the once-dense evergreen canopy. We import 33 percent of the softwood we consume, much of it from old-growth forests in Canada and Siberia. The shell consists of two double layers of 40 x 20 mm softwood laths at 400 mm centres pin-jointed together with more than 1000 bolts. If made from softwood, vineyard posts must be chemically treated to stop wood-rotting fungi. Floodplains supported softwood forests and bountiful warm-season riparian food resources such as fish and mussels. It's about American tariffs on import of softwood lumber from our loggers up here. A major trade dispute is brewing over the export of Canadian softwood lumber to the United States. If you choose to use new stock from the lumberyard, both hardwoods and softwood are good choices. I used to cut softwood from shelterbelts on prairie farms but when natural gas was piped out to all farms in the area the demand disappeared. Show More Sentences However, hardwood mulch tends to break down faster than softwood and may need to be reapplied sooner. You take softwood, dose it with industrial vinegar and give it the performance of a typical hardwood. There are a number of products we need to make in both softwood and hardwoods, which complicates things, and makes cost control difficult. All bass necks are made from 4 x 2 planed softwood and should be painted black on one side and a sort-of vaguely off-white on the other. If you choose to use new stock from the lumber yard, both hardwoods and softwood are good choices. The two basic categories of wood used most often in woodworking projects are hardwood and softwood. Testing of the fungus on several economically important hardwood and softwood trees showed no harmful effects. When selecting your decking planks, always check that the timbers are either hardwood or pressure treated softwood. It turns out that the softwood issue was a bit of foreshadowing on things to come from the United States. Brilliantly coloured masks made from softwood were apparently usually comedic in intent. The decision of the federal cabinet on softwood lumber is a vindication of the classic principles of federalism. So, for building hardwood and softwood frames or repairing damaged timber around the house, a practical knowledge of halving joints is a real asset. This softwood sellout has contributed to the loss of tens of thousands of jobs across this country and the closures of dozens of softwood mills. Private woodlots yield both hardwood and softwood for lumber, pulpwood, and fuel. We believe the softwood lumber agreement is full of holes for the following reasons. On the contrary, the party supported sellout agreements, such as the softwood lumber agreement. When we held hearings into the softwood lumber sellout at the international trade committee, it was very clear what the implications were. We have seen in the past year the softwood sellout, which was started by the Liberals and continued by the Conservative government. Silviculture expenditures have included planting spruce species, thinning of young overstocked softwood stands, and softwood release. The post and timber fence is not constructed in plywood, it is softwood. Show More Sentences Yet we have seen the most catastrophic sellout of British Columbia interests on softwood lumber imaginable. Why will the Prime Minister not be straight with Canadians and admit that he did not push the softwood file in Texas? The train passes mature hardwood maple, beech, yellow birch, hickory and American linden trees, and softwood alders and willows weeping over a calm pond. We also have the sellouts, whether it is the softwood sellout or the shipbuilding sellout. In fact, since the government decided to sign that softwood sellout with the U. S., another mill has gone down in New Westminster. The Bloc denounced the softwood lumber agreement but, after a few weeks of waffling, it supported the agreement. If we go back to the softwood lumber deal, forestry companies were saying that this was a bad deal. Mr. Speaker, the softwood lumber deal is the absolute essence of what it is to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The member has been through the softwood lumber issue, and he made some statements that would be appropriate to correct. The softwood lumber sellout has resulted in the hemorrhaging of thousands of jobs throughout Canada. He likens public education to a tradeable commodity, subject to the same free-market competition rules as soybeans, bobblehead dolls and softwood lumber. We are going to be bogged down in a long and nasty protectionist battle, just like we have been bogged down in a battle on softwood. Suitable materials for composting include annual weeds that haven't formed seed, leafy softwood prunings, old bedding plants, autumn leaves and grass clippings. The Harper-Bush agreement on softwood lumber suddenly appears to be rapidly unraveling. Essentially, we said that we would be obliged to shut down our softwood lumber industry. The latest fines in the softwood lumber agreement, and there are bound to be more, the taxpayers will pick up the tab. A dispute over softwood lumber being imported from Canada into the United States has been festering for the last 12 years. Despite Stephen Harper's and David Emerson's fiction that they have solved the softwood lumber dispute, this is not a done deal. Its top-of-the-line structural products are made from pieces of softwood, such as spruce and jack pine. Is he, along with his colleague, prepared to gamble away oil in this country and tie it strictly and solely to softwood lumber? Show More Sentences The U.S. Commerce Department has cut the countervailing duty on Canadian softwood lumber by 10 percentage points, attempting to comply with a NAFTA appeal panel ruling. The Conservatives basically gave away the softwood lumber industry to the United States, and we had to kowtow to the Americans on that one. The Commission's analysis showed that hardboard can be made of softwood or hardwood species of wood, or of a mixture of both. Similarly, criteria for planting eligibility should also be broadened to allow for more planting of sites which naturally support softwood. This natural product is much heavier than normal softwood shavings and granulate products. The mill produces bleached softwood kraft pulp and handles chipped fibre through to finished pulp production and packaging. The industry blames the job losses on the US government's imposition of countervailing duties on softwood lumber imports from B.C. and most other Canadian provinces. Why would the federal government want to rub salt in the wounds of British Columbia as it struggles with the damaging softwood lumber tariffs? Welding was undertaken in the hold of the Skalva without adequate precautions or protection for the cargo of dry softwood construction lumber. The improvement results mainly from the final resolution of certain commercial credit exposures from prior periods in the softwood industry. This type of stand is extremely rare at such an altitude, where softwood trees are more common. Hardwood plywood, which is similar in production to softwood plywood, is covered in less detail. Five thousand Canadians have lost their jobs since the softwood sellout was put into place. The goal is for the federal government to consider using softwood lumber in its construction projects. Accusations of subsidies and dumping are an erroneous attempt to poke holes in Canada's vibrant softwood lumber industry. As the Prime Minister preens for his image consultant, softwood communities are being destroyed. It's not the best place to look for sawlogs, so we're trying to send the processor in first to make sawlogs where they can from both hardwood and softwood. Securing enough fibre for an Oriented Strand Board mill that will require over 900 000 cubic metres per year of hardwood and softwood is no easy task. Or you can root 4-to 6-inch softwood cuttings taken in summer and fall. Despite these rather dark prospects, there is a faint glimmer of hope that the situation might not turn out too disastrous for the Canadian softwood industry. Show More Sentences Conifers are of great economic value for softwood lumber and paper production. The forest industry has slowed in recent years because of the softwood lumber dispute. I assumed that at some point in his 20 minute oration he would request the House to allow him a do over on his vote in support of the softwood lumber agreement. Because hardwood flakes are more brittle than softwood flakes, the gentle handling characteristics of vibrating conveyors result in less breakage than rotary screens. Under this agreement, the landowner may determine the destination of saw logs and peeler logs, designating, for instance, a specific mill for softwood saw timber. It causes less pressure on existing forestry and our conservation program is protected because of the abundant source of softwood lumber being grown commercially. Even in Windsor West, believe it or not, a very successful furniture making factory in post-end production disappeared in recent weeks because of the softwood lumber sellout. I would point to the softwood lumber dispute, bugwood and a number of other issues that the government has found a way to ignore in its time in office. As a direct consequence of the anticipated decline of Quebec and Canadian softwood lumber, the tonnage of forest products handled in some ports of the province could also decrease. Will the Prime Minister tell the president that he will stand fast on the illegality of the Byrd amendment and insist that Canadian softwood producers get their money back? After abandoning the economic development of the regions of Quebec in their budget, the Conservatives have abandoned forestry workers for the benefit of the Americans and a bargain-basement deal on softwood lumber. The reason this is so frustrating for us when we ask the Liberal government to at least ante up the money to look after the court settlement for our softwood lumber industry is that it is not just about softwood. We have seen dozens of mills close, thousands of jobs lost, and the Canadian taxpayer and Canadian softwood communities continue to pick up the tab. The Prime Minister clearly has flip-flopped on his softwood position, from hollow threats to the silent treatment and now the moving target approach. However, when it comes to agricultural trade and international trade issues pertaining to agriculture and softwood lumber, to use one of Harold Ballard's phrases, I think the government has been rather wimpish. Mr. Speaker, the reality is that part of the secret booby prize of the softwood lumber sellout is that the government gave up Canada's right to protect and help our own communities. Thus, for example, acrylonitrile meets these conditions in only one industrial class while hardwood and softwood dusts conform to them in more than 20 different industrial classes. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that my colleague from Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup supported our government's softwood lumber agreement, which gave our industry a new breath of life. We also saw with the softwood sellout, which the Liberals supported through every single stage, that the Bush softwood slush fund was supported by the Liberals. While the success or failure of this approach is difficult as yet to assess, some indicators, such as the increased use of introduced softwood species for woodcarving, indicate the usefulness of the overall approach. Show More Sentences This switchback trail leads through a dense forest of softwood to the top of Broad Cove Mountain for a view of Warren Lake, Broad Cove Campground and the Atlantic Ocean. Together these northern softwood forests form a world resource of tremendous importance, yielding the bulk of the lumber and pulpwood handled commercially. Late last year, while watching the international trade minister bungle negotiations, the official opposition began calling for arrangements to support the softwood industry workers. On an issue like the black liquor subsidy, why are our forestry workers once again being sold down the river and being sold a misplaced bill of goods from the Bloc, which has sold us out on the softwood lumber issue? I would like to ask my colleague about a plan for manufacturing and industrial development, especially based upon his work on the softwood lumber file. Instead of once again caving in to U. S. protectionist lobbies, will the minister identify the specific section of the softwood lumber agreement which, according to him, prohibits loan guarantees? In all honesty, I have to say that I am not a softwood lumber expert. Will the government drop its laissez-faire attitude and be firm with the Bush administration to prevent a new war on softwood lumber from starting up? What about the softwood sellout that has decimated our forestry sector? Quebec lost thousands of jobs because of this softwood lumber sellout. Whether it be in the resource sector where we sell out our resources, like the softwood sellout, or our manufacturing sector, our governments are in a state of denial even as hundreds of thousands of jobs disappear. It took an opposition willing to work to stop the softwood sellout and put in place something that would have been more sustainable in the long term. I know that the softwood sellout has had an equally devastating impact on my colleague's riding and that communities are being hard hit by what has been happening to that sector. I know the members from British Columbia are much more in tune with the softwood sellout than I am and I will leave that for them to discuss because it really pertains to them. Unless the government steps in to clean up the mess created by the softwood sellout, another 300 families will lose their breadwinner and 1,000 jobs will be lost indirectly. As we search for solutions in softwood lumber and other commodities, we ask our American neighbours to manage trade based on law, on science and on best practices, not based on regional parochialism. Over 200,000 Canadians are directly employed in the logging, forestry, mining and oil well industries, and the mishandling of the softwood lumber dispute has already sent many to the unemployment lines. It simply defies imagination that anyone could try to pretend the Liberals were not duplicitous and explicitly involved in every stage of the softwood sellout. The issues on softwood lumber were an object lesson for me. As regards the softwood lumber agreement with the United States, the Liberal Party of Canada has always supported a two-step approach to resolving the dispute over softwood lumber-arbitration by the courts and negotiation. Show More Sentences I've been involved in half a dozen agriculture issues: greenhouse tomatoes, the potato wart issue on Prince Edward Island, the Canadian Wheat Board, softwood lumber. We recall that they have unjustifiably interfered with the free flow of trade in hothouse tomatoes in British Columbia, with mussels and potatoes in P. E. I., and again for the last few months with softwood lumber. The investment will enable us to meet the growing demands of our customers for softwood pulp and the increasingly popular textile pulp. The associations want a NAFTA panel ruling finalized that stated Canadian softwood lumber is not unfairly subsidized. Japan's continuing malaise, the United States' recession and the impact of American duties against softwood imports have all hammered British Columbia. America's timber manufacturers want the Bush administration to impose steep duties on Canadian softwood imports or negotiate a new bilateral pact when a five-year agreement expires at the end of March. They should look at the families who have been disrupted, who have lost their jobs and who have been under terrific pressure for eight years under the softwood lumber agreement. Selecting laminates on cores of engineered wood, domestic softwood or wood which is less utilized and evaluating other potential environmental concerns associated with their production. The evaluation derived its results from three lines of evidence: a literature review, a report by a panel of labour market experts, and a report assessing the need for these programs by the softwood lumber industry. Below the tree line are wooded areas, including British and European native oak woodlands and introduced softwood plantations. Generally, to reach a certain brightness target hardwood requires fewer chemicals than softwood, which usually means that the number of bleaching stages can be reduced. The mill produces TMP for newsprint manufacture from softwood chips. In this instance, the additional hardwood volume was generated as fallout from operations for softwood, and therefore will not impact the overall sustainability of the hardwood resource on this license. Determination of characteristic stresses and residual life expectance of preservative treated hardwood and softwood poles. In chemical terms, the difference between hardwood and softwood is reflected in the composition of the constituent lignin. Hardwood is preferred over softwood because it creates less smoke and burns longer. You should have used softwood for the frame of this shed, instead of overbuilding it like this. The purpose of this work is to determine the effect of brownstock kappa on the bleachability of softwood EMCC kraft pulp. The unit is strong enough for chamfers, roundovers and profiles in softwood, hardwood, plastics and solid surfaces. Also, curve sawn boards from sweepy softwood logs are slightly wider and longer than straight sawn lumber from curved logs. Show More Sentences The exothermic heat of reaction was measured for both softwood and hardwood cooks in a laboratory digester. This softwood has been planted extensively throughout Scotland. It is common to classify wood as either softwood or hardwood. In coniferous or softwood species the wood cells are mostly of one kind, tracheids, and as a result the material is much more uniform in structure than that of most hardwoods. August softwood exports were 33 percent higher than July, with total exports for the first eight months of 2007 up 17 percent over the same period last year. Keel and frames are traditionally made of hardwoods such as oak while planking can be oak but is more often softwood such as pine, larch or cedar. Globally, the softwood log trade reached an eight-year high in 2014, to approximately 85 million m3, according to estimates from Wood Resources Quarterly. Dimensional lumber made from softwood is typically used for construction, while hardwood boards are more commonly used for making cabinets or furniture. The house Longhorn Beetle is principally found in roof timbers, where it attacks the sapwood of exclusively softwood species, often resulting in severe structural weakness. Examples from Classical Literature Some which are classed as hardwoods are softer than some in the softwood list. It is apparent, therefore, that the terms hardwood and softwood are commercial rather than scientific. The northern trees are softwood dwarfs, needle-leaved, flowerless, and cone-bearing. The softwood cutting is made from tissue which is still growing, or at least from that which is not dormant. There were plenty of splinters and ends of softwood that were mine by right of purchase and labour. Longleaf pine is as widely used as any softwood in this country. The house longhorn beetle can have a devastating impact on property, as it attacks the sapwood in softwood timber. Its range is more restricted than that of any other American softwood. The medullary rays are numerous, and for a softwood they are prominent. Find more words! 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