Wood Identification Workshop
The Louisiana Forest Products
Development Center, part of the Louisiana State University
AgCenter, is offering a workshop “Practical Wood Identification”
on July 9 on the campus of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston,
La. The goal of this workshop is to familiarize participants of
the proper procedure to correctly identify an unknown wood
species. Each wood species contains anatomical features that
are unique only to that species,
species group, or genus.
By learning to identify key
anatomical features, participants should be able to identify
many common domestic wood species. This workshop is intended
for wood working hobbyists, craftsmen, and industry personnel
that are interested in learning to properly identify wood.
Individuals with little or no previous experience at wood
identification are encouraged to attend. The workshop is being
offered in cooperating with the School of Forestry at Louisiana
Tech University. For more information, please contact Steve
Hotard email:
shotard@agcenter.lsu.edu
or telephone: (318)644-2662 or Todd Shupe email:
tshupe@agcenter.lsu.edu or telephone (225)578-6432.
Lumber Drying Workshop
The Louisiana Forest Products Development
Center, part of the Louisiana State University AgCenter, will be
hosting a comprehensive 3 day lumber drying workshop “Drying Lumber
For Quality and Profit” on July 23-25, 2008. The workshop will be
held on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, La. This workshop will
thoroughly cover the lumber drying process from start to finish of
hardwood and softwood lumber. In addition, participants will gain
valuable hands-on experience in the laboratory periods.
Some of the topics to be covered include wood-water relations, wood
anatomy, EMC-temperature-RH, moisture meters, steam kilns and
operation, kiln control principles, drying stress and degrade,
statistical process control, trouble shooting, air drying and stain,
and wood shrinkage. The instructors for the workshop include Drs.
Todd Shupe, Qinglin Wu, and Charles Clément with the Louisiana
Forest Products Development Center, School of Renewable Natural
Resources, LSU AgCenter and Pat Bennett, Kiln Superviser, with Roy
O. Martin Lumber Co. in Alexandria, La. Mr. Bennett has over 20
years of industrial hardwood and softwood lumber drying experience.
All instructors are international experts in the field of lumber
drying and wood-moisture relationships. Contact Dr. Todd Shupe for
more information at
tshupe@agcenter.lsu.edu or (225)578-6432.
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