World Wood Day

The International Wood Culture Society (IWCS) has announced the 2013 World Wood Day on March 21st. This year’s symposium will be held in Tanzania with the theme “Wood in Africa: Cultural Distribution, Historical Utilization, and Future Sustainability”. The symposium aims to encourage the exchange of ideas and experiences concerning the …

Wood Reference

Have you been looking for a good reference to help identify that log in your pile? Here is a reference in the Special Collections Research Center of the NCSU Libraries. It includes radial, tangential, and cross-sections of 350 North American woods from the 14-volume rare book The American Woods, published …