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
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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)
https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/index.html (Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods)
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| 446 | Juglans Cinerea (Linnaeus) Butternut tree canopy Reference: UFEI - SelecTree: A Tree Selection Guide. https://selectree.calpoly.edu/tree-detail/juglans-cinerea. Accessed 8 Sept. 2019. |
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| 445 | Butternut Tree Bark Butternut tree bark. Reference: UFEI - SelecTree: A Tree Selection Guide. https://selectree.calpoly.edu/tree-detail/juglans-cinerea. Accessed 8 Sept. 2019. |
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| 441 | 144. Taxus Brevifolia Nuttal Reference: The American Woods: Exhibited by Actual Specimens and with Copious Explanatory Text by Romeyn B. Hough. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/common.html. Accessed 30 Aug. 2019. |
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| 439 | Pacific Yew tree bark Pacific Yew tree bark Reference: "File:PacificYew 8566.jpg." Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. 14 Feb 2018, 08:21 UTC. 30 Aug 2019, 03:07 |
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| 437 | Pacific Yew Foliage Pacific Yew Taxus brevifolia, 2005-09-08, Panjab Creek, Blue Mts, WA. Reference: "File:Taxus brevifolia Blue Mts WA.jpg." Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. 13 Jun 2019, 15:14 UTC. 30 Aug 2019, 02:59 |
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| 434 | Taxus Brevifolia Nuttal The Pacific Yew is found from British Columbia to Northern California from the coast to the Cascades, on the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas and the western slope of the Rockies in B.C., Idaho and Montana. Reference: habitatdana. “Pacific Yew, Taxus Brevifolia.” Native Plants PNW, http://nativeplantspnw.com/pacific-yew-taxus-brevifolia/. Accessed 30 Aug. 2019. |
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| 433 | California Nutmeg Foliage Reference: Torreya Californica (California Nutmeg). https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/89482. Accessed 25 Aug. 2019. |
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| 432 | 145. Torreya Californica Torrey Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods, Volume VI plate 145 Reference: Plate_145.Jpg (JPEG Image, 1862 × 2680 Pixels) - Scaled (34%). https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/vlgimage/plate_145.jpg. Accessed 25 Aug. 2019. |
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| 430 | Torreya Californica Torrey California Torreya Torreya californica, Crystal Cave trail, Sequoia National Park, California, USA. Attribution: Sandy__R from Scotland, UK [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)] Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torreya_californica_Crystal_Cave_1.jpg |
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| 429 | Pinus Lambertiana Douglas Pinus lambertiana foliage and old open seed cones Attribution: Richard Sniezko, US Forest Service Dorena Genetic Resource Center [Public domain] Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pinus_lambertiana_opencones.jpg |
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