Introduction

Wood has been used for thousands of years for fuel, as a construction material, for making tools and weapons, furniture and paper, and as a feed-stock for the production of purified cellulose and its derivatives, such as cellophane and cellulose acetate.1

Welcome to the Wood category. Please use this category for your research projects pertaining to the study and research of wood. The wood research projects could include analysis about lumber and the properties and attributes of a specific wood species.

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Research links

The links provided below are helpful links for our editors to use, they are by no means meant to be the only source. If you find links that are helpful for the research of this subject, please include them below.

https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/index.php (Forest Products Laboratory)

https://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/ (US Forest Service Tree Search)

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File Gallery: Wood

		ID	T	Name	Actions
		249		Redwood Burl Slab Redwood burl sold by Redwood Burl Inc Reference: SL-106 | Redwood Burl Inc. https://redwoodburl.com/product/sl-106/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2018.
		248		Redwood Cones Redwood female cones Reference: Sequoia Sempervirens (Cupressaceae) Image 17366 at PhytoImages.Siu.Edu. http://www.phytoimages.siu.edu/imgs/paraman1/r/Cupressaceae_Sequoia_sempervirens_17366.html. Accessed 18 Nov. 2018.
		247		Redwood Foliage Sequoia sempervirens foliage and cones, Mount Tamalpais East Peak, Marin Co., California Attribution: Ilya Katsnelson from Mountain View, USA [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sequoia_sempervirens_foliage_cones_Mount_Tamalpais_1.jpg
		246		Redwood Tree Bark
		230		Tree Anatomy Anatomy of a Tree graphic Reference: Anatomy of a Tree | US Forest Service. https://www.fs.fed.us/learn/trees/anatomy-of-tree#block-menu-service-footer-five-id. Accessed 27 Oct. 2018.
		228		Giant Sequoia Turning Blank Giant Sequoia Redwood is part of the wind fallen trees that have been salvaged by Far West Forest Products Reference: “Home | Lumber Products | Far West Forest | Sheridan, CA.” Far West Forest, https://farwestforest.com/. Accessed 20 Oct. 2018.
		227		Giant Sequoia (female cones) Immature seed (female) cones of Sequoiadendron giganteum, Portland, Oregon, October Attribution: By Thereidshome - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5735247 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GreenSeedConesSequoiadendronGiganteum.JPG
		226		Giant Sequoia (male pollen cones) Unopened pollen (male) cones of sequoiadendron giganteum, Portland, Oregon USA Attribution: By Thereidshome - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5735023 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UnopenedMalePollenConesGiantSequoia.jpg
		225		Sequoia Gigantea (Lindley) Decaisne General Sherman tree is, by its volume of 1,487 m3 (52,513 cu ft), the largest known living single stem tree on Earth. Attribution: By Kimon Berlin - IMG_1468, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11107764 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:General_Sherman_1469870071.jpg
		224		Giant Sequoia (General Sherman) The General Sherman tree in Sequoia National Park Attribution: By Bradluke22 (Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:General_Sherman.jpg

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