Do you agree that the birchbark canoe is the most environmentally friendly method of transportation?

Question

Of course, it would increase time for travel and not be suitable for all. But I think that canoes could be used for everyday travel for a great number of people.

Answer 1

walking is better.  Poor Arizona.  are there any rivers there?

Answer 2

As a matter of practicality, your plan wouldn't work.  There aren't enough high quality, large birch trees to produce enough canoes for people to use.  

You would be better off to issue bicycles to everyone.  You could probably melt down one SUV and get enough steel for at least 40-50 bikes.

Answer 3

Honey, you may be amazed by some of the answers you got here, but let me just say that I am a bit amazed by your question.  What made you think of such a thing?

If one were planning to travel via waterways, assuming that you had a suitable waterway at your disposal, I would think that the most environmentally friendly means to accomplish that would be a raft made from dead timber.  In order to work with birch bark, it must be harvested from a live tree, and cannot be harvested again from that tree (assuming it survives the trauma---which it would if it wasn't girdled in the process).  Plus, I wouldn't personally be too interested in the pine pitch sealing project as that is very messy business.  

Yep, I'd say that a raft would be a better alternative---plus there would be extra room to share a ride!

Answer 4

No walking about in shoes/clothes crafted from the hides of dead animals that died naturally and you found on the forest floor. If you had to cross a body of water you could swim or float on a naturally fallen log, or if it is big enough you could dig a canoe out of the log

Answer 5

NOWADAYS PEOPLE ARE TO LAZY TO MANUALLY RELAX WITH A OAR IN THEIR HANDS. DO YOU THINK THEIRS ENOUGH BIRCH TREES FOR 2 BILLION PEOPLE TO GO BOATING WITH. SOME LIKE SAILBOATS.

Answer 6

I doubt that birch trees would think so.

How 'bout  plain ol' foot travel? That was the standard for millenia.

Answer 7

Dont you need water for that

does the whole world live on the river ???

And what about the poor debarked birches???

wont they die

Do you belong to the John Birch society by any chance???

Answer 8

You have Floraphobia, you Treeist!