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Common Tree Uses

Common Tree Uses. Red Maple. Light colored wood furniture, paneling, moldings, doors, turnings, and musical instruments. about 25 percent less hard than sugar maple. Black Cherry. Most economically valued wood in PA Reddish brown wood and grains Used for veneer

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Common Tree Uses

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  1. Common Tree Uses

  2. Red Maple • Light colored wood • furniture, paneling, moldings, doors, turnings, and musical instruments. • about 25 percent less hard than sugar maple

  3. Black Cherry • Most economically valued wood in PA • Reddish brown wood and grains • Used for veneer • furniture, cabinets, paneling, moldings, flooring, musical instruments, carvings, and turnings

  4. Northern Red Oak • Second most valuable • high-quality furniture, cabinets, paneling, moldings, construction, coffins, and floors

  5. White Oak • Used for barrels • Same as red oak, but better for outside uses including ships and barrels because it’s impervious to water

  6. Yellow Poplar • furniture, veneer, cabinets, doors, paneling, plywood, turnings, and carvings

  7. Sugar Maple • strong, shock-resistant wood • solid furniture, moldings, veneer, paneling, tabletops, cabinets, woodenware, rifle stocks, handrails, doors, bowling alleys, and floors

  8. Chestnut Oak • Often marketed as white oak • Bark is rich in tannins, used for leather • Similar to white oak uses

  9. White Ash • very strong and shock resistant • baseball bats, hockey sticks, boat oars, and tool handles • Fine furniture, paneling, flooring, doors, moldings, turnings, and cabinets

  10. American Beech • Difficult to work, tasteless • furniture, flooring, paneling, brush handles, ties, and food container

  11. Hickory • 5 types • Wood is difficult to work due to hardness • flooring, tool handles, ladders, dowels, and sporting goods.

  12. Latin names • Maples- Acer • Oaks- Quercus • Pines- Pinus • Birches- Betula • Hickories- Carya • Beech- Fagus • Ash- Fraxinus • Cherry- Prunus

  13. G:R Ratio • Net Growth to removal • A G/R ratio greater than 1 indicates growth in inventory outpaces removals • resource management within that period could be continued without depleting inventory, and thus is considered sustainable

  14. Cords • 128 cubic feet • 4 feet high, 8 feet long, and 4 feet deep • Or the equivalent

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