Woodworking

1. Identifying Wood, Accurate Results with Simple Tools

• In-depth systematic approaches to identifying over 180 wood species; an overview of the wood-identification process; a look at the basic anatomy of woody plants, softwoods and hardwoods; sources of information and materials, and a glossary of all technical terms in the book. R. Bruce Hoadley. Newtown, CT: Taunton Press, 1990.
  ISBN 0-942391-04-7 (hbk.).

2. The Encyclopedia of Wood, Revised Edition

• Provides information on the physical and mechanical properties of wood and how these properties are affected by variations in the wood itself. Forest Products Laboratory of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. New York: Sterling Publishing Company, 1989.
  ISBN 0-8069-6994-6 (pbk.).

3. Know Your Woods, Revised Edition

• A complrehensive guide to trees, woods, and veneers. Albert Constantine, Jr. Revised by Harry J. Hobbs. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1959) 1975.
  ISBN 0-684-18778-7 (pbk.).

4. A Reverence for Wood

• A review of the resource and its early products with construction plans which made possible so much of the early settlement of North America Eric Sloane. New York: Ballantine Books, 1965.
  ISBN 0-345-319911-5 (pbk.).

5Y. Wood

• For the very young child, this book explains with simple pictures and text where wood comes from and the products it yields. Denis Wrigley. Guilford & London, England: Lutterworth Press, 1974.
  ISBN 0-7188-2094-0 (hbk.)

6. Woodcrafting for Wildlife

• Plans and information for natural cavity building for 34 wildlife species. Jerry Hassinger. Harrisburg, PA: Wild Resources Conservation Fund & Pennsylvania Game Commission.
  No CD & no ISBN, spiral.