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Earlywood and latewood fiber.

Nature of Wood

Wood Laboratory. Peruse. (We will not do this as a lab assignment.)

Hand-Lens Key for the Use of Identification of Important Commercial Woods Used in the Unites States, W. R. Adams, revised by R.A. Whitmore, University of Vermont. Peruse.

Forest Products Laboratory. 1999. Wood Handbook: Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-113. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 463 p. Table of contents . Peruse.

Hoadley, R. Bruce. Understanding Wood, Newtown, Connecticut: The Taunton Press, 1980.

Chapter 1, The Nature of Wood, pp.1-18. Download as PDF file. Read.

Chapter 3: Wood Identification, pp.39-46. Download as PDF file. Read.

Chapter 4: Water and Wood, pp.67-70, Download as PDF file. Read.

Hutcheon, N.B. and J.H. Jenkins. Some Basic Characteristics of Wood, Canadian Building Digest 85. Ottawa, Ontario:, Division of Building Research, National Research Council, 1967.

Hutcheon, N.B. and J.H. Jenkins. Some Implications of the Properties of Wood, Canadian Building Digest 86. Ottawa, Ontario: Division of Building Research, National Research Council, 1967

Alden, Harry A. 1997. Softwoods of North America, USDA Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-102. 151 p. [Download PDF file 700 kb, 151 pp.] This report describes 52 taxa of North American softwoods, which are organized alphabetically by genus. Descriptions include scientific name, trade name, distribution, tree characteristics, wood characteristics, and additional sources of information. Data were compiled from existing literature, mostly from research done at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin.

Resources

Forest Products Laboratory, Forest Service, USDA

Building Materials and Wood Technology, Department of Natural Resources Conservation, College of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Note: Bruce Hoadley (readings, above) is a faculty member.

WoodSampler, Woodworker's Website Association

Wood Identification Database, Richard van der Leeden

eFloras.org