See the forest for the trees
The closest National Forest unit to Laramie, WY
What is the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest?
The point at which cell walls are saturated but lumens empty
What is the Fiber Saturation Point?
The very center of the tree
What is the Pith?
A material with the same stiffness properties in two symmetric axes.
What is transversely isotropic?
This is the best possible grade of softwood lumber.
What is Select Structural?
This tv show was set in Ozark-St Joe National Forest, and follows a family trying to stay together after a money-laundering operation gone bad.
Ozark
The rate at which "green wood" reaches the equivalent moisture content when air dried.
What is ~1-in/year?
In a tree cross section these are lighter colored areas and are made of mostly living wood cells.
What is Sapwood?
This is the polymer backbone of wood
What is cellulose?
Two methods of lumber grading.
What are visual and machine grading?
Lodgepole and Ponderosa are two.
What are Pine species native to Wyoming and Colorado?
This technique produces lumber that is most likely to twist, warp, or cup.
Plain Sawn
These grow out from the trunk and cause knots to be present in a piece of lumber.
What are Tree Branches?
The material direction with the greatest shrinkage.
What is tangential?
WWPA & SPIB are the most common examples.
What are Lumber Grading Agencies?
This Shakespearean play features the Birnam Wood, of which two trees survive.
What is Macbeth?
The process used to fabricate OSB
What is Chipping?
This dark, center portion of the tree has high extractive content.
What is Heartwood?
One earlywood and one latewood layer
What is an annual ring?
The two most important factors in lumber visual grading
What is the slope of grain & knot distribution?
The father of the US Forest Service
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
This lumber is smooth on all sides
What is S4S?
This is the outermost annual ring, where tree growth occurs.
What is the Cambium?
This class of rotting fungi attacks the cellulose in wood.
What is brown rot?
Glulam grade for flexure with a 1,600-psi allowable flexural stress and 1,300-ksi elastic modulus constructed of southern pine.
What is 16F-1.3E SP/SP?