[NatureNS] birch bark harvesting ad

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href=3D"http://www.birchbarkvt.com/"&gt;http://www.birchbarkvt.com
Hi Nancy,  As an ordinary white person as I understood it to take birch 
bark all the way around a tree would kill it.  It seems to me that DW is 
right in that one would have to go right through the bark.

On 05/07/13 7:59 AM, nancy dowd wrote:
> The following text of an ad on p.10 of Northern Woodlands magazine (Summer
> '13) caught my attention:
>
> "It's white birch bark harvest season! We need to buy bark from thousands
> of trees in June and July!"
>
>>From the contact email I tracked down the company website:
> http://www.birchbarkvt.com/
>
> I though stripping birch bark from trees would kill the tree. The website
> says nothing about the safety to the trees (or lack thereof) of this
> activity.
>
> Nancy
>

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