Links to Course Resources:

Syllabus and Course Guidelines

Quizzes and Tests

Problem Sets

Common Ground Workshops

email the instructor (rhsmith@mcdaniel.edu)

 

Questions about wood? Ask the Wood Doctor.

Newspaper Article about "Trees on the Hill" course 

Pictures of the classes at work.

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2001

Yearly Champs

(if you know of other useful sites, please email URL + short description to rhsmith@mcdaniel.edu)

For tree and wood identification

Field Guide to Trees Eastern Region, Elbert Little, publ. by National Audubon Society

Eastern Trees, George A. Petrides, a Peterson Field Guide

Identifying Wood, Brude Hoadley, Taunton Press

For some woodworking sources see the bottom of my Common Ground page

Other Wood Courses -

http://courses.ncsu.edu/WPS202/syllabus.html
great site, online wood anatomy and properties course at NCSU. Much good information and practice quizzes.

http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-dept/helm/3434WOOD/info.html
good online wood chemistry course (UVT) with much information, lots of good chemistry. http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-dept/helm/3434WOOD/WOOD3434.html An alternative entrance to this site, but mostly leads to just the PDF files.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/HTMLpages/Academics/Biology/botf99/botsyf99.html Dr. Iglich's Botany homepage at WMC.

http://depts.washington.edu/pse406/40inter.htm
Wood Chemistry course at Washington Univ.

http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/FPLGTR/fplgtr113/fplgtr113.htm
a nice Wood Handbook in PDF format in case you don't want to spend the money of Bruce Hoadley's Understanding Wood (which you should!).

http://www.umass.edu/bmatwt/syllabi/201_syllabus.html
Bruce Hoadley's wood course at U. Mass. Just a course syllabus.

http://www.courses.ncsu.edu:8020/classes/wps319001/wps319_mech.html#Course Syllabus - Mechanics
heavy on the mechanics/physics/engineering side

Useful Resources -

http://dmoz.org/Science/Biology/Taxonomy/Taxonomy_Map/Plantae/
great site, taxonomically organized for all plants. Includes images of trees, leaves, fruit, etc.

http://www.forestworld.com/wow/wowonline_home.htmlWoods of the World - a great database of information about 910 species of woods. Searchable by common and binomial (Genus species) names as well as characteristics. You have to register as a user, but it's free!

http://www.forestry.uga.edu/efr/olddocs/newdocs/html/for97-193-1.html
a gross-feature, macroscopic approach to wood identification. A good place for the beginner to start, if you don't want to go to hand lens, end-grain analysis.

http://www.kestrelcreek.com/Wood.htm
a list of 91 common wood names and their genus. Includes gross features of each type of wood.

http://www.hardwood.org/
simple site that shows common hardwoods and their machining properties

http://www.umass.edu/bmatwt/features.html
a number of interesting articles about wood. Especially scan down and look for the articles by Stephen Smulski.

http://www.pbs.org/wws/
link to Roy Underhill's Woodwright's Shop site. Lots of interesting stuff about Nineteenth Century hand woodworking techinques.

http://www.greenwoodworking.com/
John Alexander's green woodworking page. Plans for English shaving horse and good discussion of mortise & tenon joints. Course listings.