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In page Birch:

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Because of the hardness of birch, it is easier to shape it with power tools; it is quite difficult to work it with hand tools.[1]

  • Birch twigs bound in a bundle, also called birch, were used for birching, a form of corporal punishment.[citation needed]
  • Many Native Americans in the United States and Indigenous peoples in Canada prize the birch for its bark, which because of its light weight, flexibility, and the ease with which it can be stripped from fallen trees, is often used for the construction of strong, waterproof but lightweight canoes, bowls, and wigwams.[citation needed]
  • The Hughes H-4 Hercules was made mostly of birch wood, despite its better-known moniker, "The Spruce Goose".