Rex Trulove
Larch is one of the most commercially important wood trees, especially in the west. The wood grain is quite beautiful and this wood has been used extensively for house construction, flooring, plywood, particleboard, and paper. It is also used for fencing, as shown in this picture. The wood in the picture has been allowed to become weathered and seasoned. Often, it is stained instead, but the grain is so beautiful that painting isn’t commonly done to the wood.
People who read the article about the major project that was finished, putting in a storage shed, might recognize that in the first picture of that set, the fence that was shown was made of the same wood as what is shown in this picture, although it isn’t the same fence. Our side fence is made of larch.
Larch is also an important type of firewood and the major fire we had locally two years ago burned a large amount of larch forest. Three of the four cords of wood that our neighbor has cut, split, and stacked so far for firewood is larch that came from the cleanup in the area of the fire.
