Common Tree Uses

Red Maple

• Light colored wood• furniture, paneling, moldings, doors, turnings,

and musical instruments. • about 25 percent less hard than sugar maple

Black Cherry• Most economically valued wood in PA• Reddish brown wood and grains• Used for veneer• furniture, cabinets, paneling, moldings,

flooring, musical instruments, carvings, and turnings

Northern Red Oak

• Second most valuable• high-quality furniture, cabinets, paneling,

moldings, construction, coffins, and floors

White Oak

• Used for barrels• Same as red oak, but better for outside uses

including ships and barrels because it’s impervious to water

Yellow Poplar

• furniture, veneer, cabinets, doors, paneling, plywood, turnings, and carvings

Sugar Maple• strong, shock-resistant wood• solid furniture, moldings, veneer, paneling,

tabletops, cabinets, woodenware, rifle stocks, handrails, doors, bowling alleys, and floors

Chestnut Oak

• Often marketed as white oak• Bark is rich in tannins, used for leather• Similar to white oak uses

White Ash• very strong and shock resistant• baseball bats, hockey sticks, boat oars, and

tool handles • Fine furniture, paneling, flooring, doors,

moldings, turnings, and cabinets

American Beech

• Difficult to work, tasteless• furniture, flooring, paneling, brush handles,

ties, and food container

Hickory• 5 types• Wood is difficult to work due to hardness• flooring, tool handles, ladders, dowels, and

sporting goods.

Latin names

• Maples- Acer• Oaks- Quercus• Pines- Pinus• Birches- Betula• Hickories- Carya• Beech- Fagus• Ash- Fraxinus• Cherry- Prunus

G:R Ratio

• Net Growth to removal• A G/R ratio greater than 1 indicates growth in

inventory outpaces removals – resource management within that period could be

continued without depleting inventory, and thus is considered sustainable

Cords

• 128 cubic feet• 4 feet high, 8 feet long, and 4 feet deep• Or the equivalent