General Information

	State & Private Forestry Technology Marketing Unit
	The Technology Marketing Unit provides technical assistance for improving utilization and marketing of forest products.

What's New

• Woody Biomass Utilization 2005 Grant Program: Status Report
• Agriculture Secretary Johanns Announces $6.2 Million For Woody Biomass Utilization Projects
• 2007 Woody Biomass Grantee Summary
• 2005 TMU Accomplishments Report
• Forest Products Conservation & Recycling Review
  • Current issue
  • Listing of back issues (January 1998 to Current)
• USDA Offers $22.8 million for Energy Efficiency and Renewables
• 2004 TMU Accomplishments Report
• SmallWood 2004 Presentations
• Fuel Value Calculator
• Log Sort Yard Economics Planning Feasibility
• Structural Grading of Logs from Small-Diameter Trees
• Producing Spalted Woo
• Storage of Softwood Logs
• Photo Gallery of Darby Library / Westcliffe Pavilion
• 2003 TMU Accomplishments Report
• Portable Sawmill Manufacturers
• Wood Chips to Electricity Video (1:54 minute)
• Biomass for Small-Scale Heat and Power
• Wood Biomass for Energy
• Bandsaw Cracking: Troubleshooting Causes
• Sawmill Technical Assistance
• Uses for Small-Diameter & Low-Value Forest Thinnings, Ecological Restoration, March 2003
• Program on Small-Diameter and Underutilized Material (view as PDF)
• National Fire Plan - TMU Projects
• Small Diameter Roundwood Utilization - Roundwood Kiosk 2002, Kiosk Construction, Photo Gallery, and Small-Diameter Roundwood Kiosk Construction Brochure

Notable Publications Online

• Dividends from Wood Research
• Primer on Wood Biomass for Energy
• Wood-Plastic Signs Using Western Juniper
• Blue Stain
• The Top 25 Utilization and Marketing Publications
• Thermal Degradation of Fire-Retardant-Treated Plywood
• Home Wreckers in Search of Moisture
• Biomass for Heat and Power
• Environmental Impact of Preservative-Treated Wood
• Coatings Minimize Leaching from Treated Wood
• Exploring the Uses for Small-Diameter Trees
• Timber Bridge Economics
• Profile 2001: Softwood Sawmills in the United States and Canada
• Potential for Expanding Small-Diameter Timber Market--Assessing Use of Wood Posts in Highway Applications
• FPL Goes to the Winter Olympics
• Report of the Intelligent Consumption Project
• Fence Post Brochure
• National Forest Products Utilization and Marketing Personnel Directory (Updated August 2006)
• Circular Sawmills and Their Efficient Operation
• A Planning Guide for Small and Medium Size Wood Products Companies: The Keys to Success
• Air Drying of Lumber
• Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material
• Drying Hardwood Lumber
• Dry Kiln Operator's Manual