From what I’ve been able to find, the ships were originally built using live oak trees from Georgia, but the forest the US Navy maintains for the USS Constitution is in Indiana.
I’m not joking when I say I had to study trees in school, I’m a carpenter, they did teach you a bunch of stuff about species of trees and how they grow.
![[OC] The USS Constitution, the oldest naval warship still afloat.](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d5c9b27d-0ddf-45b3-a533-498edc45252a.jpeg){kind=link}
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From what I’ve been able to find, the ships were originally built using live oak trees from Georgia, but the forest the US Navy maintains for the USS Constitution is in Indiana.
https://www.military.com/history/why-us-navy-manages-its-own-private-forest.html
https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2015/05/11/the-wooden-walls/
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Digging all the little details, of course I could have just looked it up, but engagement!
Wouldn’t be very good if they kept a plot of dead oak trees.
Haha I suspect you know this but live oak is a species of oak. It’s not referring to their mortality status.
I’m not joking when I say I had to study trees in school, I’m a carpenter, they did teach you a bunch of stuff about species of trees and how they grow.