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Wood Research Portal

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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Create a project in the Wood category by clicking on Create a Wiki Page. Once the page is created you can choose the Wood category in the "Properties" tab of your wiki page project.

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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

Recent pages In this category

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Files and Images In this category

ID T Name
" data-bs-html="1" data-bs-delay='{"show":500,"hide":250}'>167 " data-bs-html="1" data-bs-delay='{"show":500,"hide":250}'>White Spruce Wood
White Spruce showing end grain quarter-sawn surface grain

Reference: Misc Spruce. http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/spruce,%20misc.htm. Accessed 3 Sept. 2018.
" data-bs-html="1" data-bs-delay='{"show":500,"hide":250}'>166 " data-bs-html="1" data-bs-delay='{"show":500,"hide":250}'>White Spruce Male Pollen Cone
White Spruce male pollen cone

Attribution: By Nadiatalent [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Picea_glauca_2.jpg
" data-bs-html="1" data-bs-delay='{"show":500,"hide":250}'>165 " data-bs-html="1" data-bs-delay='{"show":500,"hide":250}'>White Spruce Female Cone
White spruce (Picea glauca), seed cones, specimen grown. Botanical Garden of the University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland.

Attribution: By Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Picea_glauca_%C5%9Awierk_bia%C5%82y_2011-09-11_03.jpg
" data-bs-html="1" data-bs-delay='{"show":500,"hide":250}'>164 " data-bs-html="1" data-bs-delay='{"show":500,"hide":250}'>White Spruce Bark
Bark of a White Spruce tree (Picea glauca) growing in Hollis, New Hampshire along a trail.

Attribution: By Rob Duval [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Picea_glauca-bark.jpg
" data-bs-html="1" data-bs-delay='{"show":500,"hide":250}'>211 " data-bs-html="1" data-bs-delay='{"show":500,"hide":250}'>White Fir Tree Bark
White Fir bark in Kane, Utah. USA

Reference: brewbooks. Abies Concolor (White Fir) Bark. 7 July 2009. Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/3778696091/.

References

1 Wikipedia contributors. "Wood." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 9 Feb. 2017. Web. 11 Feb. 2017.
 
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