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Not mentioned is the cedar industry and how it fits into this story. A great deal of the cedar roofing and siding from from the Pacific Northwest. While there is yet much old growth, regulations have made it harder and harder to acquire. Because of that, many cedar harvesters have taken to mining it. Just as was mentioned in this article, once the cedar is no longer subjected to oxygen, it can last for ages. Without oxygen, bugs cannot attack it. Cedar minors look for telltale signs of large, fallen trees. When they find them, they use excavators to dig them out, after which, the wood is cut to size for shakes and shingles. Occasionally, a find will produce what cedar mills call guitar wood, which, as the name implies, is cut to lengths needed for producing musical instruments.
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