Common Tree Uses

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