Wood Products

 Forestry Blog: Unit 3 Most people admire the beauty developed by structures created using timber and other wood products. However, people rarely think of the wood source or the wood by-products that were used to make the appealing structure or products. Based on this deficit, I would like to develop insight on how wood by-products are generated and how they are selected for various uses. Wood products are generated from trees that are grown in plantations or forests. Thus, one has to harvest the trees upon which they can be converted to useful products. The harvesting process can be developed in three ways; section harvesting, shelterwood harvest, and clear-cut harvest (Cook, 2014). Under selection harvesting, people harvest small portions of forests over a long period while clear-cutting oversee the harvest of the entire forest. Sheltered harvest entails the removal of mature trees while retaining the immature trees. After harvesting, the acquired logs are transported to a sawmil...