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Natural decay resistance of heartwood from dead, standing yellow-cedar trees : laboratory evaluations

Yellow-cedar trees have been mysteriously dying for more than a century in southeast Alaska. As these stems continue to stand for decades in the forest, foliage, twigs, and branches deteriorate. The sapwood in the stem degrades, leaving columns of essentially heartwood standing like ghosts in the forest until they eventually drop. To estimate the potential for...

Author(s):

Rodney C. De Groot; Bessie Woodward; Paul E. Hennon

Year:

2000

Keywords:

Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, Decayed wood, Heartwood, Evaluation, Durability

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Forest products journal. Vol. 50, no. 1 (Jan. 2000).:p. 53-59 : ill.

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Natural decay resistance of heartwood from dead, standing yellow-cedar trees : laboratory evaluations

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