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The Revised Code of Washington (RCW) is the compilation of all permanent laws currently in force in the U.S. state of Washington. [1] Temporary laws such as appropriations acts are excluded. It is published by the Washington State Statute Law Committee and the Washington State Code Reviser which it employs and supervises. [2] [3]
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) manages over 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km 2) of forest, range, agricultural, and commercial lands in the U.S. state of Washington. The DNR also manages 2,600,000 acres (11,000 km 2 ) of aquatic areas which include shorelines , tidelands , lands under Puget Sound and the coast, and ...
Firewood is any wooden material that is gathered and used for fuel. Generally, firewood is not heavily processed and is in some sort of recognizable log or branch form, compared to other forms of wood fuel like pellets. Firewood can be seasoned and heat treated (dry) or unseasoned (fresh/wet). It is generally classified as either hardwood or ...
In the United States and Canada, firewood is usually sold by the cord, 128 ft 3 (3.62 m 3), corresponding to a woodpile 8 ft wide × 4 ft high of 4 ft-long logs. The cord is legally defined by statute in most U.S. states. A "thrown cord" is firewood that has not been stacked and is defined as 4 ft wide × 4 ft tall × 10 ft long.
A history of the lumber industry in the state of New York (US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Forestry, 1902) online; Fries, R. J. Empire in Pine. The Story of Lumbering in Wisconsin, 1830-1900 (1951); Irland, Lloyd C. "Maine Lumber Production, 1839-1997: A Statistical Overview." Maine History 38.1 (1998): 36–49. online
Small firewood logs drying on-site. For some purposes, wood is not dried at all, and is used green. Often, wood must be in equilibrium with the air outside, as for construction wood, or the air indoors, as for wooden furniture. Wood is air-dried or dried in a purpose built oven . Usually the wood is sawn before drying, but sometimes the log is ...
A 2010 effort led by State Senator Gloria J. Romero, a Democrat from Los Angeles, sought to remove serpentine from its perch as the state's official stone. Organizations such as the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization have supported the move as the olive green rock is a source of chrysotile , a form of asbestos that can cause mesothelioma ...
Krummholz Pinus albicaulis in Wenatchee National Forest Wind-sculpted krummholz trees, Ona Beach, Oregon. Krummholz (German: krumm, "crooked, bent, twisted" and Holz, "wood") — also called knieholz ("knee timber") — is a type of stunted, deformed vegetation encountered in the subarctic and subalpine tree line landscapes, shaped by continual exposure to fierce, freezing winds.