This atlas presents technical information for professionals who process and use temperate or tropical timber. It combines the main technical characteristics of

Over the past two decades U.S. lumber imports from the tropics have increased fourfold. Plywood trade, mostly from Asian sources, has soared forty-fold and now

Gymnosperms. Angiosperms.Explanation of the wood descriptions. Lists of families classified with reference to special properties and uses of their bark, leaves,