Brooks Forest Products Center, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia 24060
Brooks Forest Products Center, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia 24060
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 The
Forest Service is an agency within the
Department of Agriculture. It contains
approximately 37,000 employees across 3 broad areas: (1) the
National Forest
System, responsible for management of the Nation's national forests, (2)
Forest and Rangeland
Research, conducts research on a broad range of forest and rangeland
issues and transfers resulting technologies to users, and (3)
State and Private Forestry, provides
collaborative stewardship of our Nation's forests with other public and
private organizations.
Within Forest Service Research there are 6 regional research stations and the Forest Products Laboratory. The Southern Research Station has laboratories and research work units located across the southern U.S. from Texas to Virginia and south to Florida. Research is conducted on a wide variety of forest-related topics, including wildlife and fisheries, economic and social impacts, wood utilization and harvesting, silviculture, and ecosystem processes. Research work unit SRS-4702 of the Southern Research Station, located on
the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg
Virginia, is devoted to tree quality assessment, automated wood processing,
non-timber forest products, and solid wood recovery, reuse and recycling
research. The mission of the unit is to enhance wood resource conservation
and sustainability through advanced timber analysis and wood processing, and
effective wood product recovery, reuse, and recycling.
Send Questions or Comments to Matt Winn: mwinn@fs.fed.us |
