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Article: Extracting greater value from subalpine fir: veneer products.
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- Forest Products Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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Abstract
This paper, which describes an evaluation of the suitability of subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt.) for the manufacture of preservative-treated plywood and laminated veneer lumber (LVL), was part of an overall study to explore opportunities to extract greater value from subalpine fir (Knudson et al. 2008, McFarling et al. 2009). Due to preferential logging of lodgepole pine, the availability of subalpine fir in British Columbia is projected to increase significantly, in some regions to as high as 30 percent of the softwood harvest. Logs for the veneer products studied came from five subalpine fir trees (one dominant, one codominant, and three ...