Today’s occurrences of the Lebanese Cedar in its country of origin are extremely small. In the Lebanon itself there are only 1,700 hectare left of this species. The Lebanese Cedar once was one of the most precious woods worldwide and had been used for the construction of temples, palaces and ships already thousands of centuries ago. In the 20th century, between 1914 – 1918, the then still large occurrences have been eliminated by using the wood for the production of railway ties. The civil war as well greatly contributed to the disappearance of the Lebanese Cedar species. The logs which are produced to veneers today are mostly from parks in England and France.