HEART LARCH

Heart Larch (Larch Heartwood) is one of the few types of wood in the world being harvested from a sustainable forest. Larch species account for approximately 38% of the timber in Russia’s 2.7 billion acre Boreal Forest. That alone is substantially larger than the entire Amazon Rain Forest which is about 800 million acres.

One of the most beneficial characteristics of Heart Larch is its natural durability and decay resistance. This unique quality is due to its extremely high resin content. Also, Heart Larch grows very slowly and thus has very tight growth rings which give it superior stability. Larch is nothing like the plantation species being grown today that are timbered after only 15 or 20 years of growth. The structural integrity of Larch sets it apart from almost all other species. However, the one specie that is most similar to Heart Larch is Heart Pine. The heartwood of these two woods is so similar that only experts can tell them apart. The only immediate visible difference in the two is their knots.