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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		ID	T	Name	Actions
		327		California Incense Cedar By Hough A page from Romeyn Beck Hough’s unique fourteen volume work The American Woods, a collection of more than 1000 paper-thin wood samples representing more than 350 varieties of North American tree. Between 1888 and 1913, Hough published a total of thirteen volumes of the work, but died in 1923 before being able to fulfil his epic fifteen volume plan. Source:https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-american-woods/
		324		Port Orford White Cedar Female Cones Port Orford White Cedar Female Cones Attribution: H. Zell [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chamaecyparis_lawsoniana_002.JPG
		325		Port Orford White Cedar Foliage Port Orford White Cedar Foliage and White X's and Resin Gland dots visible on backside of leaves. Reference: Starr, Forest Starr and Kim. Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana (Port Orford Cedar). 2 Dec. 2013. Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/forest-and-kim/11212465705/.
		326		Port Orford White Cedar Male Pollen Cones Male Pollen Cones Attribution: Sten Porse [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC BY-SA 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chamaecyparis-lawsoniana-female.JPG
		322		Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana (A. Murray) Parlatore Old-growth Lawson's Cypress Chamaecyparis lawsoniana at Blue Lake trail, Fish Lake, California Attribution: By US Forest Service Dorena Genetic Resource Center - http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/dorena/photos/poc/forest-stands/view/PA00014562/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5295926
		152		Pinus Caribaea (Morelet).jpg Pinus elliottii at St. Joseph Peninsula State Park, Gulf County, Florida. Reference: File:Pinus elliottii(1).jpg. (2015, March 8). Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Retrieved 15:33, August 12, 2018 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Pinus_elliottii(1).jpg&oldid=152432305. Attribution: By Mason Brock (Masebrock) [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons
		309		Western Red Cedar Big Located in Washington’s Olympic National Forest about five miles north of Kaloloch lodge just off highway 101. Attribution: woodley wonderworks [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Thuja_plicata_-_Olympic_National_Park.jpg
		308		Western Red Cedar Foliage Attribution: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thuja_plicata_kz3.JPG
		307		Western Red Cedar Pollen Cones Western Red Cedar, Canoe Cedar female cones Attribution: Walter Siegmund [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thuja_plicata_43569.JPG
		302		Thuja Plicata (Donn) Western Red Cedar near July Creek, Lake Quinault, Washington Reference: brewbooks. Thuja Plicata - Western Red Cedar near July Creek. 21 Aug. 2004. Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/820090338/.

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