Wood Products Knowledge
Excerpts from the Forest Products Laboratory Wood handbook
LUMBER BASICS
For information about how Western lumber is produced, graded and used in today's marketplace, please visit www.lumberbasics.org. This site is part of the Western Wood Products Association website – www.wwpa.org.
There are 10 sections in the WWPA Lumber Basics program. They are:
Lumber as a Building Material
Lumber Manufacturing
Standards and Grading
Lumber Characteristics
Seasoning
Lumber Identification
Structural Products
Special Structural Products
Non-Structural Products
Lumber Storage
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