Most people know that paper is make from trees.  But did you ever stop to think that the cardboard protecting your cereal, the carton that holds your mild and juice, the protective egg carton, all come from trees?  Wood and wood products are all around us -  from the lumber we use to build our homes, to the furniture we use to make us comfortable.  And those are just the most obvious.  Look into your (wooden) kitchen cabinets and discover that wood and wood products can also be found in baby foods, cereals, vegetarian foods and chewing gum.  Look in your medicine chest - your vitamins, toothpaste, and medicines contain products that come from trees.  And from toothpicks to shoe polish, carpeting to hair spray, soaps to solvents - the average American uses wood and paper products equivalent to what can be produced from one 18th diameter, 100 - foot tree every year.

And each year, over five new trees are planted for each American.  And in West Virginia, many more trees are naturally regenerated on harvested sites.

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