Canary Island Pines Aren't Wood Trees, Right?

We're using a lot of species that aren't typically on the commercial market because they have been deemed culturally as those aren't wood trees. Most of those resilient trees that are getting planted as urban trees were somewhere, somehow, at some time, a tree that civilizations built themselves on. So this tree is so resinous. And that natural resin in it, why use pressure treated wood? It's like we're not thinking outside the box.

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