1. Deforestation
Link to video on deforestation

2. Trees to Table Saws
How we get wood, what are wood products and who are the people using them?

3. Harvesting Trees Silva Culture Selective Cutting Clear Cutting
Video on Silva Culture
Selective Cutting
PICTURE OF SELECTIVE CUTTING
Clear Cutting
Picture of Clear Cutting

4. Processing Lumber Barking Slicing into large planks or cants
Slice edge and trim cants
Grading and sorting
Drying Lumber
Air and Kiln Drying
Video on how and why we dry wood

5. Classification of Wood
Panel Stock
MDF
OSB
Plywood
Interior / Exterior
Hardwood
Hardboard
Molding
Softwood

6. Hardwood vs Softwood Hardwood comes from deciduous trees
Oak
Maple
Walnut
Poplar
Softwood comes from coniferous trees
Fir
Pine
Redwood

7. Lumber Defects Knot Check & Split Decay Warp (pictures on next page)
Place where a branch grew from the tree
Check & Split
Separation of the wood, check is on the end
Decay
Rotting Wood
Warp (pictures on next page)

8. Warp

9. Grading Lumber TOO Complex for my little brain In General
FAS - First and Seconds
Select & Better (very close to FAS)
#1 Common
#2 Common

10. Jobs Construction / Carpenter Cabinetmaker Millwright
Drafter / Architect
Forester
Furniture Designer
CAD / CAM
Teacher
Dressmaker

11. Problem Solving State the problem clearly Collect information
Develop possible solutions
Select the best solution
Implement the solution
Evaluate the solution

12. Selective Cutting
Return to harvesting trees

13. Clear Cutting
Return to harvesting trees

14. Rot
Return to lumber defects

15. Split
Check
Return to lumber defects

16. Knots
Return to lumber defects

17. Return to lumber grading
Select and Better
Return to lumber grading

18. Return to lumber grading
#1 common
Return to lumber grading

19. Return to lumber grading
Cherry #2 common
Return to lumber grading

20. Dress Made Out of Wood
Return to jobs