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Welcome to Ecocomposite
Imagine what's left after a birch bark canoe is left in a field for ten years compared to a fiberglass boat (a ... ). Ecocomposites have been used for thousands of years, including such things as sinew backed bows, birch bark canoes, snowshoes, and straw/clay buildings. Modern work on ecocomposites has increased in recent years ...
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Ecocomposites
Today most composite research is in defense industries and ... Ecocomposites have been used for thousands of years, including such things as sinew backed bows, birch bark canoes, snowshoes, and straw/clay buildings. Modern work on ecocomposites has increased in recent ...
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Save Our Seine River Environment Inc >> In the Media
Mike Allen has seen them in Winnipeg. The bark is snowy white instead of the typical grey green and from a distance, looks like birch. It is fascinating to note that the ... , and sap for sugar, and it has echoed with the lively music of early settlers." Birch bark canoes silently plied the Seine for generations. The Seine rises in marshy woods by the ...
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ForestHarvest - News on non-timber forest products in Scotland
August 2007 Modern day Finns have found some ingenious uses for their abundance of birch trees, including making a sugar alcohol called xylitol which is used in tooth-friendly chewing ... found. It's from Finland - and it was made from birch trees. The Stone Age version was made by heating birch bark in the absence of air, to produce a tar. Like its ...
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ForestHarvest - past use of non-timber forest products in Scotland
Oak and birch bark, for example, were formerly gathered in large quantities for the ... wild garlic), dyes (e.g. alder bark) and other essentials for rural dwellers until well into the 20th century. Birch bark was rolled up and ... may have been living in Scotland: Fibrous elm bark for string and rope. Birch bark for baskets and canoes. Boar tusks for cutting ...
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Rideau Canal Waterway - Rideau Paddling FAQ
Rideau (done using birch bark canoes). Other very interesting history books are Robert Legget’s "Rideau Waterway" and Robert Passfield ...
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The OTTAWA RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers"
Birch bark canoes have given way to pleasure boats, cruising the 500 kilometre course of the Temiskawa ...
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The MISSINAIBI RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers"
Their construction featured: • White cedar frames, bent with heat into half-circles • Birch bark covering, sewn into place with "watape" (spruce root fibre) • Caulking of pine or spruce gum ...
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Betula lenta L.
Fernald et al., (1958) quote an old English recipe for the beer: "To every Gallon of Birch-water put a ... previous fermentation. In Spring, the inner bark can be cut up into noodle-sized strips and cooked as birch "noodles." Like maple sap, ... sugar industry for flavoring and in perfumery. Birch tar oil, distilled from the wood and bark of Betula pendula Roth is used for eczema, ...
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Paper Birch or White Birch
Indians made their canoes and coverings for their houses with its bark. It worked so well that white men imitated these practices for a long time. Paper birch bark is very strong and almost totally resistant to rot. The paper birch ...
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