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Common Tree Uses
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Red Maple
• Light colored wood• furniture, paneling, moldings, doors, turnings,
and musical instruments. • about 25 percent less hard than sugar maple
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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
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Northern Red Oak
• Second most valuable• high-quality furniture, cabinets, paneling,
moldings, construction, coffins, and floors
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White Oak
• Used for barrels• Same as red oak, but better for outside uses
including ships and barrels because it’s impervious to water
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Yellow Poplar
• furniture, veneer, cabinets, doors, paneling, plywood, turnings, and carvings
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Sugar Maple• strong, shock-resistant wood• solid furniture, moldings, veneer, paneling,
tabletops, cabinets, woodenware, rifle stocks, handrails, doors, bowling alleys, and floors
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Chestnut Oak
• Often marketed as white oak• Bark is rich in tannins, used for leather• Similar to white oak uses
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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
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American Beech
• Difficult to work, tasteless• furniture, flooring, paneling, brush handles,
ties, and food container
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Hickory• 5 types• Wood is difficult to work due to hardness• flooring, tool handles, ladders, dowels, and
sporting goods.
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Latin names
• Maples- Acer• Oaks- Quercus• Pines- Pinus• Birches- Betula• Hickories- Carya• Beech- Fagus• Ash- Fraxinus• Cherry- Prunus
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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
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Cords
• 128 cubic feet• 4 feet high, 8 feet long, and 4 feet deep• Or the equivalent