Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> writes: > sent from a phone > >> Am 28.12.2015 um 06:44 schrieb Warin <[email protected]>: >> >> The common understanding of the word 'forestry' is .. an activity that uses >> trees to make products. This is a 'use'. > > interesting, then I was mislead, I had thought of forestry as an > activity to grow wood (and maybe cut it down, clean it, maybe take > care of the animals in the wood), but not as the industry of making > things out of the wood, like the work of sawmills, cabinetmakers, > joiners etc.
From the native US English speaker perspective: I agree with Martin pretty much exactly. Warin's sense of forestry (which may be true in German) is not used in the US at all. I would put a papermill that is located in the area where the wood as grown as perhaps marginal to call it a forestry activity, but I think people would consider that not forestry. Perhaps the same with sawmill, although that seems like more of a stretch. Anyone using post-sawmill wood (cabinetmaker, house building, etc.) is definitely not forestry. We also have a notion of "forester" as an occupation, which is someone who oversees the land that trees are grown on for harvesting, deciding what to cut when, etc. As oppposed to a "logger", who actually cuts trees, although this is probably fuzzy. But neither of these operate sawmills (a "sawyer") or build furniture (e.g. "cabinetmaker").
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