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Silvics of North America (1991), [2] [3] a forest inventory compiled and published by the United States Forest Service, includes many hardwood trees. [ a ] It superseded Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States (1965), which was the first extensive American tree inventory. [ 6 ]
The wood is extremely hard, being one of the hardest woods in Northern America with a Janka hardness test of 1,700 lbf (7,560 N) [46] and specific gravity of 0.733 (733 kilograms per cubic metre or 45.7 pounds per cubic foot).
The Appalachian hemlock–northern hardwood forest is a forest system found in the Appalachian Mountains of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia and western North Carolina. These forests occur in deep coves, moist flats, and ravines.
Live oak wood is hard, heavy, and difficult to work with, but very strong. ... It is the largest Live Oak in North Carolina, with a circumference of over 6.4 m (21 ft).
Apr. 17—Call it, "The Case of the Forest Felons." Or how about, "The Case of the Ozark Outlaws." Either way, we got to hand it to the U.S. Forest Service, which recently merged some innovative ...
Map of wood-filled areas in the United States, circa 2000 [1]. In the United States, the forest cover by state and territory is estimated from tree-attributes using the basic statistics reported by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service. [2]
The State of North Carolina has a group of twelve protected areas known as State Forests which are managed by the North Carolina Forest Service, an agency of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Less than 1% of the North Carolina counties hardest hit by Helene were covered — and in South Carolina, it was even less, 0.3%. The NFIP, managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ...