How to Use the Forest Products Laboratory 



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testing activity at the Forest Products 

 Laboratory is its wood-identification 

 service The Laboratory acts as Gov- 

 ernment headquarters for the identifi- 

 cation of wood. Several thousand 

 samples of wood products, ranging 

 from structural timbers to antiques, 

 are received each year and identified 

 as to species by examination of the 

 minute structure of the material. 



In a few cases in which the Labora- 

 tory's research program, the public 

 interest, and the needs of wood-proc- 

 essing groups are likely to benefit, 

 cooperative research projects are un- 

 dertaken. Although an outside agency 

 or a commercial firm may finance such 

 projects entirely or in part, the publi- 

 cation of the results of such coopera- 

 tion is controlled by the Laboratory in 

 the public interest. 



A relatively new field organization, 

 linking the Forest Products Laboratory 

 to wood users throughout the United 

 States for more effective service, is 

 found in seven Forest Utilization Serv- 

 ice units located at forest experiment 

 stations of the Forest Service. Two or 



more men, trained in wood uses and 

 prepared to serve wood users directly 

 through expediting the handling of in- 

 dividual and regional problems, are lo- 

 cated at the following stations : 



California Forest Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Berkeley 4, Calif. 



Central States Forest Experiment 

 Station, Columbus 15, Ohio. 



Northeastern Forest Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Northern Rocky Mountain Forest 

 Experiment Station, Missoula, Mont. 



Pacific Northwest Forest Experi- 

 ment Station, Portland 5, Oreg. 



Southeastern Forest Experiment 

 Station, Asheville, N. C. 



Southern Forest Experiment Station, 

 New Orleans 19, La. 



F. J. CHAMPION joined the Forest 

 Products Laboratory in 1921 as an 

 illustrator and since that time has en- 

 gaged in a variety of activities in the 

 Information and Educational Division. 

 He is the author of numerous articles 

 on the utilization of wood. He was 

 born in Michigan. 



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How wood as a raw material "flows" into the paper and paperboard industry 



is shown above. 



