History: Wood Research Portal
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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.
Name all files and images appropriately before uploading to our server. Image and files that contain arbitrary titles or naming conventions will be removed from this wiki.
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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.
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)
Project pages in this category
- Wood Research Portal
- American Woods (Forward)
- Cross-Section of Tree Trunk
- Methods of Cutting Logs Into Lumber and Veneers
- Seasoning of Wood
- Grains and Figures in Wood
- The Softwoods (Conifers)
- How a Tree Grows
- State Trees
- Eastern White Pine
- Western White Pine
- Sugar Pine
- Pinyon Pine
- Red Pine
- Ponderosa Pine
- Lodgepole Pine
- Loblolly Pine
- Pitch Pine
- Virginia Pine
- Shortleaf Pine
- Jack Pine
- Longleaf Pine
- Slash Pine
- Eastern Larch
- Western Larch
- White Spruce
- Engelmann Spruce
- Sitka Spruce
- Eastern Hemlock
- Western Hemlock
- Douglas Fir
- Balsam Fir
- White Fir
- Grand Fir
- Noble Fir
- Giant Sequoia
- American Woods (Preface)
- The Hobby of Woodworking
- Tree Names
- Redwood
- Bald Cypress
- California Incense-Cedar
- Northern White-Cedar
- Western Red Cedar
- The American Woods Project
- Port Orford White-Cedar
- Atlantic White-Cedar
- United States of America State Trees
- Eastern Redcedar
- The Hardwoods (Broadleafs)
Files and images in this category
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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 |
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621 | Bigtooth Aspen Tree Bark Bigtooth Aspen tree bark Attribution: Paul Wray, Iowa State University, Bugwood.org Source: https://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=0008013 |
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619 | Big Tooth Aspen Foliage Leaves of Bigtooth Aspen (Populus grandidentata) Attribution: User:Schzmo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Populus_grandidentata.JPG |
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592 | 72. Populus Tremuloides, Michx. Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods, Volume III plate 72 Reference: Plate_72.Jpg (JPEG Image, 1883 × 2711 Pixels) — Scaled (33%). https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/vlgimage/plate_72.jpg. Accessed 21 Apr. 2021. |
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591 | Quaking Aspen-National Reproductive Stand Page 110 Schoonover "American Woods" Illustration for "Quaking Aspen-National Reproductive Stand" Reference: Schoonover, Shelley E. 1886-. American Woods pg. 110 Santa Monica, Calif.: Watling, 1951. |
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590 | Populus Tremuloides Michaux |
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543 | 268. Myrica Cerifera L Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods, Volume XI plate 268 Reference: Plate_268.Jpg (JPEG Image, 1852 × 2711 Pixels) - Scaled (33%). https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/vlgimage/plate_268.jpg. Accessed 18 Jan. 2020. |
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542 | Myrica Cerifera Linnaeus Middle-aged Myrica cerifera: Southern Waxmyrtle Reference: Watson, Edward F. Gilman and Dennis G. Figure 1. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ST410. Accessed 18 Jan. 2020. Source: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/LyraEDISServlet?command=getImageDetail&image_soid=FIGURE%201%20ST410&document_soid=ST410&document_version=9512 |
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541 | Southern Waxmrytle Male Female Flowers Showing the male and female flowers of the Southern Wax Myrtle (Myrica cerifera) Attribution: By Valis55 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57409589 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_Wax_Myrtle_Flower_Sexing.jpg |
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539 | Mryica Californica Chamisso Pacific Waxmrytle tree in backyard. Reference: Morella-Californica-Tree-2.Jpg (JPEG Image, 650 × 491 Pixels). https://selectree.calpoly.edu/images/0900/50/original/morella-californica-tree-2.jpg. Accessed 17 Jan. 2020. |
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538 | Pacific Waxmrytle Fruit Wax Mrytle fruit and foliage. Reference: Pacific Wax Myrtle, Morella Californica | Native Plants PNW. http://nativeplantspnw.com/pacific-wax-myrtle-morella-californica/. Accessed 17 Jan. 2020. |
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516 | AHEC Grading Guide Grading guide to American Hardwoods Reference: Europe | AHEC. https://www.americanhardwood.org/index.php/en/eu?region=1. Accessed 28 Dec. 2019. |
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507 | 65. Carya Glabra (Mill) Britt. Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods, Volume III plate 65 Reference: Plate_65.Jpg (JPEG Image, 1862 × 2690 Pixels). https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/vlgimage/plate_65.jpg. Accessed 7 Dec. 2019. |
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506 | Pignut Hicorky Foliage Pignut Hickory foliage Reference: Sweet Pignut Hickory (Carya Ovalis). https://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/trees/plants/sweet_pignut.html. Accessed 7 Dec. 2019. |
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505 | Pignut Hickory Tree Bark Pignut Hickory tree bark Reference: Pignut Hickory. http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/fieldbio/Clapp_Hansen_Siegel/Pages/Pignut_Hickory.html#Bark. Accessed 7 Dec. 2019. |
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503 | Carya Glabra (Miller) Sweet (Hicoria Glabra (Miller) Britton) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carya_glabra.jpg Attribution: Supergrosfatty [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] |