I've noticed that my birch logs left outdoors take way longer to decompose than maple ones.
Answer,
Sometimes I find birch trunks are rotted away, only the bark remains and stays usable for many years.
Baskets, boxes, makeshift mugs, knife handles and sheaths. Left over pieces as a fire starter.
Easily carved wood, refreshing sap, roots for cordage and nets, fine twigs for brooms or woven to sieves.
The white lady of the forest gives us so much.
Kerplunk
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