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This is a directory of companies involved in wood-framed building deconstruction, dismantling and reused building materials, with an emphasis on those that use, resell, and/or re-manufacture salvaged...

This study reviewed the literature on static and impact withdrawal of nails driven into the end grain of wood members. From this, an empirical relationship was created relating the specific gravity...

Nearly a century of successful fire suppression has resulted in dense over-stocked stands prone to catastrophic wildfires. Approximately 190 million acres (77 million ha) of Federally managed land is...

Wood poles have been used to support utility distribution lines for well over 100 years. Over that time, specifications for a "wood utility pole" have evolved from the closest available tree stem...

This report documents a study to evaluate the feasibility of using wood-framed building deconstruction at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant (BAAP) to salvage for resale and reuse building materials,...

This report provides a summary of technical papers presented in Session #90 of the recent IUFRO XXII World Forestry Congress held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, August 8-13, 2005. Papers in this...

A spreadsheet-based computer program called LamLum was created to analyze the economics of value-added laminated lumber manufacturing facilities. Such failities manufacture laminations, typically...

Many of our national forests are in critical need of restoration. These forests are dense, with an abundance of small-diameter, tightly spaced trees and underbrush that can contribute to the rapid...

This report examines economic implications for sustainable forest management of globalization and related structural changes in the forest sector of the United States. Globalization has accelerated...

The model ChargeOut! was developed to determine charge-out rates or rates of return for machines and capital equipment. This paper introduces a costing methodology and applies it to a piece of...

This literature review reports in-service moisture and temperature conditions of floor, wall, and roof members of wood-frame buildings and exposed wood decks and permanent wood foundations. A wide...

The historic American ship WAPAMA is the last surviving example of the wooden steam-powered schooners designed for the 19th- and 20th-century Pacific Coast lumber trade and coastal service. Since its...

Several hardwood timber bridges were constructed in Pennsylvania during the early 1990s.This report summarizes the long-term duel performance of seven stress-laminated deck bridges over a 4-year...

Occasionally, creosote-treated railroad ties need to be replaced, sometimes in sensitive environments such as wetlands. To help determine if this is detrimental to the surrounding environment, more...

This study involved the evaluation of ponderosa pine glulam made from lumber that was sawn from a small-diameter timber resource. Two different glulam beam depths were evaluated: 8 and 13 laminations...

The softwood lumber industry in the United States and Canada consists of about 1,067 sawmills. In 2005 these sawmills had a combined capacity of 189 million m3 (80 ? 109 bf). In 2004, they employed...

Use of structural composite lumber products is increasing. In applications requiring a fire resistance rating, calculation procedures are used to obtain the fire resistance rating of exposed...

Several analyses have shown that fire hazard is a concern for substantial areas of forestland, shrubland, grassland, and range in the western United States. In response, broadscale management...

X-ray diffraction techniques have the potential to decrease the time required to determine microfibril angles dramatically. In this paper, we discuss the latest version of a curve-fitting toll that...

This paper provides an overview of the North American (United States and Canada) structural panel industry, which consists of softwood plywood and oriented strandboard (OSB). The paper describes the...

This report includes data for 1965 through 2005. Data for the years prior to 1965 can be found in earlier reports in the series. Since the last publication of this series in 2003 (data compiled...

For normally distributed populations, we obtain confidence bounds on a ratio of two coefficients of variation, provide a test for the equality of k coefficients of variation, and provide confidence...

This report updates Profile 2005: Softwood Sawmills in the United States and Canada, which was published in August 2005. Profile 2007 contains information on the location, ownership, and approximate...

It has been argued that repetitive member allowable property adjustments should be larger for high-variability material than for low-variability material. We report analytic calculations and...

A vast wood resource exists in our Nation's wood-framed building infrastructure. As the buildings in this infrastructure age and are remodeled or removed for redevelopment, the wood framing residing...

Future projections of tree cover and climate change are useful to natural resource managers from the local to national level as they illustrate potential changes to our natural resources and the...

An Aquatic and Riparian Effectiveness Monitoring Plan (AREMP) for the Northwest Forest Plan is intended to characterize the ecological condition of watersheds and aquatic ecosystems. So to determine...

Changing social contexts have necessitated a new approach to forest management. Growing dissatisfaction with clearcutting has made the USDA Forest Service the focus of criticism by various public...

When resource managers, researchers, and policymakers approach landscape management, they bring perspectives that reflect their disciplines, the decisions they make, and their objectives. In working...

Descriptive statistics and some initial results are presented for an operation-scale study being conducted by Pacific Northwest Research Station and the Washington Department of Natural Resources in...