The Forest Products Research Laboratory

The Forest Products Research Laboratory

When we speak of forest products we include not only the timber from the trees, but also such other products as derive from the bark, the leaves, or the roots. In this address, however, I shall be dealing almost exclusively with timber and its derived products. By a long-standing gentlemen’s agreement the other products, as well as certain aspects of pulping, are dealt with by the Colonial Prod...

The Forest Products Research Laboratory

When we speak of forest products we include not only the timber from the trees, but also such other products as derive from the bark, the leaves, or the roots. In this address, however, I shall be dealing almost exclusively with timber and its derived products. By a long-standing gentlemen’s agreement the other products, as well as certain aspects of pulping, are dealt with by the Colonial Prod...

Fire Performance Testing of WPCs at the Forest Products Laboratory

Wood-plastic composites represent a growing class of materials used by the residential construction industry and the furniture industry. For some applications in these industries, the fire performance of the material must be known, and in some cases improved. Lab-scale fire performance tests allow for comparisons between WPC formulations. At the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) oxygen index tes...

The 2002 Oregon Forest Research Laboratory Biennial Bibliography

Non-wood Forest Products

This paper describes an attempt to integrate the assessment of some non-wood forest products (NWFPs) in the framework of a standard forest inventory. The study is restricted mainly to medicinal and aromatic plants, i.e., herbal NWFPs, a group that has economic importance in the hill regions of Nepal. Several specific difficulties are discussed. They arise from the fact that a regular forest inv...