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)
https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/index.html (Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods)
http://www.hardwoodinfo.com/consumer/rediscovering-hardwoods/types-of-wood/ (Types of Wood by American Hardwoods)
https://ufei.calpoly.edu/ (Urban Forest Ecosystems Institute, Cal Poly)
https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/index.html (Romeyn B. Hough. Radial, tangential, and cross-sections of 350 North American woods from the 14-volume rare book The American Woods.
https://www.arborday.org/ (Arbor Day Foundation)
Featured projects
The American Woods Project
United States of America State Trees
State Trees
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659 | Balm-of-Gilead Poplar Tree Balm-of-Gilead Poplar Tree Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/351883 |
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656 | Balm-of-Gilead Poplar Tree Bark Tree bark Balm-of-Gilead Poplar Source: https://www.wildnesswithinliving.com/blog/2016/4/2/balm-of-gilead |
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654 | Balm-of-Gilead Poplar Foliage Foliage of the Balm-of-Gilead Poplar Attribution: Hornbeam Arts Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hornbeam/40821270104/in/photostream/ |
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629 | Bigtooth Aspen Buds Bigtooth Aspen bud Reference: Photograph by Christopher Burnett Source: https://fineartamerica.com/ |
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623 | Populus Grandidentata (Michaux) Bigtooth Aspen, Populus Grandidentata (Michaux) Source: www.starhillforest.com |