Background Modern forest management relies on extensive breeding and reforestation programs to sustain forest productivity and conservation of natural forests. Plantation forestry, with its increased productivity and improved wood quality, is likely to become an important source of wood products in the future. Vegetative propagation of superior coniferous forest trees through tissue culture has...

Research on wood and natural fiber-plasticcomposites has spanned several decades. However, there was relatively little market activity in the United States outside of the automotive industry prior to the last 5 years. Recently, however, the U.S. wood-plasticcomposites industry has grown tremendously. Although its total marketsize is small relativetothe traditional wood composites industry, the ...

The Center for Forest Mycology Research (CFMR) at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, WI is one of the few remaining mycological research labs left in the USDA-Forest Service. Traditionally established to study the taxonomy of pathogenic root rot, sap-rot, and heart-rot fungi, the group has changed its focus in recent years towards the biosystematics and ecology of both pathogenic and sa...

This investigation determined the gluability of weathered, out-of-service southern yellow pine (SYP) (Pinus spp.) utility poles. Three types of adhesives were used: resorcinol-phenol formaldehyde (RPF), polyvinyl acetate (PVA), and casein. The poles consisted of two service duration groups: 5 and 25 years. Longer weathering caused greater reduction in creosote content, especially in the outer a...

The FTM-West (“Fuel Treatment Market” model for U.S. West) is a dynamic partial market equilibrium model of regional softwood timber and wood product markets, designed to project future market impacts of expanded fuel treatment programs that remove trees to reduce fire hazard on forestlands in the U.S. West. The model solves sequentially the annual equilibria in wood markets over a historical p...

1 Associate Professor, Departamento de Ingeniería en Maderas, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Concepción, Chile, 4081112 2 Professor and Dean respectively of the Dept. of Wood and Forest Sciences, Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada, G1V 0A6. 3 Group Leader and Research Scientist, FPInnovations-Wood Products Division, Otawa, ON, Canada K1S 5R1. Corresponding author: [email protected] Received: 02.06...

The recognition and acknowledgement of how personal purchasing decisions affect the environment may increase the desire to buy products advertised as "environmentally-friendly." Effective and credible advertising and marketing of products deemed ecologically sound, as well as, the specific environmental qualities embodied by such products presumably weighs on the effectiveness of environmentall...

In addition to forest ecosystems, wood products are carbon pools that can be strategically managed to mitigate climate change. Wood product models (WPMs) simulating the carbon balance of wood production, use and end of life can complement forest growth models to evaluate the mitigation potential of the forest sector as a whole. WPMs can be used to compare scenarios of product use and explore mi...

Based in the Department of Wood Science and Forest Products of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Philip A. Araman is Research Project Leader for the Southeastern Experiment Station, U.S. Forest Service. He first presented this data during last year’s HMA Production University in Madison, Wis. The results are based on a cooperative research study with Earl Kline, Ph. D., assis...