Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion
Mr. Seamus Dunne:
There are practical difficulties with kiln-drying logs of that dimension. A company attempted to bring in bark-free logs some years ago from Germany and it was an unsuccessful pilot because of the difficulty. Bark-free means absolutely no bark, which is difficult given the way that trees are not perfectly cylindrical, their branches and so on. It was an unsuccessful pilot.
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