USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory: Acetylation of Wood 1945–1966

Usda Forest Service

USDA Forest Service

Wildland fire is an important disturbance agent in the western US and globally. However, the natural role of fire has been disrupted in many regions due to the influence of human activities, which have the potential to either exclude or promote fire, resulting in a ‘‘fire deficit’’ or ‘‘fire surplus’’, respectively. In this study, we developed a model of expected area burned for the western US ...

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...

‘Future Direction of USDA Forest Service Research

A. D. Wilson The USDA Forest Service has been involved in Texas oak wilt research since 1976. Despite research successes, there are still many important research areas that have not been addressed or sufficiently investigated to answer the key questions required for making sound disease management decisions. Some of the priority areas planned for future research by the Southern Hardwoods Labora...

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...