How wooden navies planned around timber shortages

If steam and steel had never arrived, how could navies avoid running out of shipbuilding timber?

Through planned forestry, imported woods such as teak, better milling, and the traditional supplement of capturing enemy ships.

Wooden navies could plan replacement forests far ahead of the ships that would need them. Britain expected a roughly fifty-year timber shortage in the middle of the nineteenth century between existing supplies and the maturity of younger trees. American forests had been intended to help bridge that gap, but access had been lost. Indian teak offered another source, and captured enemy ships could supplement new construction. Timber quality depended on preparation as well as availability: concerns over Brazilian cutting and milling affected its suitability for lower hull structures. Danish and Swedish naval planting illustrates how long these supply plans could outlast the original wooden-fleet requirement.