British Columbia (B.C.) softwood lumber product lines include spruce, pine, cedar, hemlock, larch and fir species. Softwoods come from conifer trees or cone-bearing trees, and B.C. softwood species have needle-shaped foliage instead of the leaves found on hardwood trees. ...
wood sold as yew is Pacific yew or Western yew, from the species Taxus brevifolia. Yews are coniferous trees, related to pines and other softwoods. Botanists classify another species sold under the trade name "New Zealand yew" in a different family from true yew. Yew trees are generally sma...
wood sold as yew is Pacific yew or Western yew, from the species Taxus brevifolia. Yews are coniferous trees, related to pines and other softwoods. Botanists classify another species sold under the trade name "New Zealand yew" in a different family from true yew. Yew trees are generally sma...
Poor recruitment is changing the structure and species composition of an old-growth hemlock-hardwood forest - Salk, Frelich, et al. - 2011Salk, T. T., L. E. Frelich, S. Sugita, R. Calcote, J. B. Ferrari, and R. A. Montgomery. 2011 . Poor recruitment is changing the structure and...
(a glaring example is Balsa, which is technically classified as a hardwood), while the wood of conifers is not necessarily always soft, (an example of a relatively hard softwood would be Yew). However, as a rule of thumb, hardwoods are of course generally harder than softwoods, and the...
Specializing in 2X4, 2X6 and 2X8, 8 to 20-foot lengths of small diameter Douglas Fir/Western Larch, SPF and Hemlock Fir, Vaagen Bros. encompass- es a random-length sawmill in Colville and a stud mill (for the 8, 9 and 10-foot lengths) in Usk, Wash. Combined annu- al production ...