WOOD PRODUCTS KNOWLEDGE BASE

Excerpts from the Forest Products Laboratory Wood handbook

• Chapter 4 - Mechanical Properties of Wood (pdf)
• Chapter 12 - Drying and Control of Moisture (pdf)

LUMBER BASICS

For information about how Western lumber is produced, graded and used in today's marketplace,
please visit www.lumberbasics.org. This site is part of the Western Wood Products Association
website – www.wwpa.org.

There are 10 sections in the WWPA Lumber Basics program. They are:

Lumber as a Building Material
Lumber Manufacturing
Standards and Grading
Lumber Characteristics
Seasoning
Lumber Identification
Structural Products
Special Structural Products
Non-Structural Products
Lumber Storage