The Forestry Forum

Does anyone know of a book that lists trees and tells the properties of the wood as well as a description of the tree.

Dave

I've been using Textbook of Wood Technology by Pashin & DeZeeuw - McGraw Hill.  It was the Wood Tech book I had from college, and I don't know if its still in print.  You would have to cross reference it with a tree id book.

Another pretty good book is Understanding Wood by R. Bruce Hoadley - Tauton.  I found this one at Border's.  It might not be as specific, but it is still a pretty good book.  At least at Border's it doesn't cost anything to look.

try the encyclopedia of wood  sterling publishing ISBN 0-8069-6994-6 though there may be a newer edition, mine is 1989

This isn't a book but alot of wood species with properties info is listed here.

http://www2.fpl.fs.fed.us/TechSheets/techmenu.html

Don, that looks like a great site, but when I click on a specific wood, it gives me a "Fatal Error," and crashes my application.  Anybody else having this problem?

Thanks for the help.

Dave   :P