forestry resources

• • Timber - construction, fuel, furniture, paper 
• • Medicine - willow, yew 
• • Food - apples, nuts, pigs, chickens 
• • Oxygen - respiration, ozone 
• • CO2 sequestration - biomass in trunk in form of lignin 
• • Gums and resins - rubber
• • Aid hydrological cycle - transpiration, interception, soil binding 
• • Nutrient cycle 
• • Biomimicry - Velcro, 
• • Fibres - cotton, hemp
• Economic values:

  • UK woodlands are worth £300 billion 
  • 13% of land is covered by woodland in UK 
  • Health purposes of woodland is worth £1 billion 
  • 1500 thousand hectares of woodland in Scotland
• Ecosystem services:

  • Atmospheric regulation - temperature, oxygen concentration 
  • Regulation of hydrological cycle 
  • Maintenance of water cycle
  • Soil conservation.