Title: Wood Identification Workshop

Type: Event

Start: 03:36 PM - Jul 9, 2008

End: 03:36 PM - Jul 9, 2008

Creator: cgolden

Created: Feb 29, 2008

Modified: Feb 29, 2008

State: published

Description: The Louisiana Forest Products Development Center, part of the Louisiana State University AgCenter, is offering a workshop “Practical Wood Identification” on July 9 on the campus of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, La. The goal of this workshop is to familiarize participants of the proper procedure to correctly identify an unknown wood species. Each wood species contains anatomical features that are unique only to that species, species group, or genus. By learning to identify key anatomical features, participants should be able to identify many common domestic wood species. This workshop is intended for wood working hobbyists, craftsmen, and industry personnel that are interested in learning to properly identify wood. Individuals with little or no previous experience at wood identification are encouraged to attend. The workshop is being offered in cooperating with the School of Forestry at Louisiana Tech University. For more information, please contact Steve Hotard email: shotard@agcenter.lsu.edu or telephone: (318)644-2662 or Todd Shupe email: tshupe@agcenter.lsu.edu or telephone (225)578-6432.

Title: Lumber Drying Workshop

Type: Event

Start: 03:40 PM - Jul 23, 2008

End: 03:40 PM - Jul 25, 2008

Creator: cgolden

Created: Feb 29, 2008

Modified: Feb 29, 2008

State: published

Description: The Louisiana Forest Products Development Center, part of the Louisiana State University AgCenter, will be hosting a comprehensive 3 day lumber drying workshop “Drying Lumber For Quality and Profit” on July 23-25, 2008. The workshop will be held on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, La. This workshop will thoroughly cover the lumber drying process from start to finish of hardwood and softwood lumber. In addition, participants will gain valuable hands-on experience in the laboratory periods. Some of the topics to be covered include wood-water relations, wood anatomy, EMC-temperature-RH, moisture meters, steam kilns and operation, kiln control principles, drying stress and degrade, statistical process control, trouble shooting, air drying and stain, and wood shrinkage. The instructors for the workshop include Drs. Todd Shupe, Qinglin Wu, and Charles Clément with the Louisiana Forest Products Development Center, School of Renewable Natural Resources, LSU AgCenter and Pat Bennett, Kiln Superviser, with Roy O. Martin Lumber Co. in Alexandria, La. Mr. Bennett has over 20 years of industrial hardwood and softwood lumber drying experience. All instructors are international experts in the field of lumber drying and wood-moisture relationships. Contact Dr. Todd Shupe for more information at tshupe@agcenter.lsu.edu or (225)578-6432.

Title: SHARP (Sustainable Harvesting and Resource Professional) Core training

Type: Event

Start: 10:10 AM - Jul 25, 2008

End: 10:10 AM - Aug 8, 2008

Creator: cgolden

Created: Mar 11, 2008

Modified: Mar 11, 2008

State: published

Description: Three part training. Participants completing all three sections will earn "SHARP Logger Status" useful for marketing your services and selling wood to certain mills that require the SHARP status. To register for the SHARP trainings, call the numbers listed below.