A practical guide to identifying American woods by structure and properties.
This book presents a clear, beginner‑friendly approach to distinguishing the economic woods of the United States. It emphasizes features visible to the naked eye or with a simple lens, plus essential microscopic details that support reliable identification.
Framed as a manual for forestry students, foresters, and wood users, it combines explanations of wood structure with practical guidance for specimen preparation and analysis. The work outlines how macroscopic and microscopic features relate to a wood’s usefulness and classification, and it includes a systematic key to help identify unknown samples with confidence.
- Learn how external form, anatomy, and physical properties separate one wood from another.
- Understand how to prepare cross sections and use simple microscopy in wood identification.
- Explore a two-part structure: a practical introduction to wood properties and a detailed key for identifying economic woods.
- See illustrations and notes that connect growth rings, vessels, tracheids, and parenchyma to real‑world wood use.
Ideal for readers of forest products, wood technology, and practical wood identification, as well as anyone dealing with timber in markets or the field.