Greenpeace & Guitar Makers - Bill Board Magazine

Guitar players -
SPREAD THE WORD
demand 'good wood' !

Go to http://www.musicwood.org/news/billboard_april2008.htm

There you will find a great article that outlines what Greenpeace
and responsible guitar makers are doing to raise awareness, and
help create sustainable instrument making 'standards'.

"... collective effort by Martin, Gibson, Fender, Taylor, Yamaha and others
to preserve their supply of old-growth wood from clear-cutting -- in which
all trees within a designated area are removed -- is beginning to bear fruit.

The industry heavyweights have partnered with Greenpeace on its Music
Wood campaign, with an initial focus on Sitka spruce, a key material in
guitar and piano soundboards."

www.musicwood.org (a Greenpeace effort) also has an informative inter-
active map(scroll to Where's the Wood?). to show which part of your instru-
ment comes from which wood - where that species is harvested
and which wildlife species is effected as a result.