When you walk through a furniture store, the wood around you seems ordinary. Floorboards gleam under bright lights. Tables and cabinets are labeled with familiar names of wood, such as oak, rosewood ...

Colubrina arborescens, or wild coffee, is an evergreen in Puerto Rico, the Florida Keys, Hawaii and the West Indies. Stanley Yankowski Cornus controversa, or giant dogwood, is native to China, the ...

If you love the outdoors and love doing physical work to earn your living, then cutting wood and logging may be an ideal business for you. Having a talent for using a chainsaw is not all that's ...

A new technique has been developed to tackle illegal logging by pinpointing the wood's origin to a smaller area than ever before (<100 km). Using chemical fingerprinting techniques (DART-TOFMS), they ...

In New World, Aged Wood is a vital item for an early quest and one you’ll need quite a bit of as you progress. While Aged Wood does actually grow on trees, you can’t get as much as you want right away ...

More than 20,000 board feet of protected forest species, such as cedar and mahogany, are being lost from forests inhabited by Wampis communities every month, according to estimates by community ...