Mark Duff, President Elect, November 1, 2020
Updated 10-30-2020 I want to thank everyone for electing me President Elect of IWCS in 2020. I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to most of you. While … Read more
International Wood Collectors Society
Dedicated to the study and craft of wood
Updated 10-30-2020 I want to thank everyone for electing me President Elect of IWCS in 2020. I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to most of you. While … Read more
February 17-22, 2020 – The IWCS 2020 Southeast Regional Winter Woodfest at the Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center, Eustis, Florida, is the most attended US IWCS meeting. The meeting agenda had … Read more
Giant Lion Sculpture Carved from Single Tree Trunk Took 20 People and 3 Years to Complete. 05/19/2017 A giant wooden sculpture of a roaring lion now stands proudly in a Central Chinese city … Read more
Washington apple growers sink their teeth into the NEW COSMIC CRISP. 05/07/2017 https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/03/525421226/washington-apple-growers-sink-their-teeth-into-the-new-cosmic-crisp
There Are More Than 60,000 Tree Species Worldwide, Scientists Say. 04/15/2017
A life with Wood
My Love of Trees and Wood
Gold Grows On Eucalyptus Trees. Australian researchers confirm that deep-rooted Eucalyptus trees pilfer gold from ore deposits underground and transport them into their leaves.03/06/2017
Wildfires in Colorado could get worse because of state’s 834 million dead trees. DENVER – Colorado’s beetle-infested forests are peppered with an estimated 834 million standing dead trees that threaten to … Read more
Extinct tree grows anew from ancient jar of seeds unearthed by archaeologists. 03/06/2017
Wolves Introduced in Yellowstone. In 1995, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, along with Canadian biologists, captured 14 wolves in Canada and placed them in Yellowstone National Park, where they … Read more
Dr. Charles Ray and his work with the Penn State wood collection. Bill Hallman is a television producer and has recently completed a segment featuring Dr. Charles Ray and his work … Read more
Trees Need Time To Chill. If These Trees Don’t Get Time to Chill, Farmers Will Be Out on a Limb. Frigid temperatures between 32 and 45 degrees help set buds … Read more
Sequoia Tunnel Tree Brought DownA powerful winter storm in California has brought down an ancient tree, carved into a living tunnel more than a century ago. The “Pioneer Cabin Tree,” … Read more
Scientists Work To Bring Back Once-Thriving American Chestnut Tree. The American chestnut tree used to make up a quarter of the forests in the eastern U.S., but disease decimated these … Read more
Mystery Of White Trees Among California’s Redwoods May Be Solved. Albino redwoods are white because of a genetic mutation. A researcher in California thinks he might have figured out what … Read more
Effective January 2, 2017: The entire genus Dalbergia spp. (except for Brazilian rosewood (Dalbergia nigra), which is listed in Appendix I), the three bubinga species of Guibourtia demeusei, Guibourtia pellegriniana, and … Read more
Memorial for James Oliver Rye, #1212October 16, 1925 – October 25, 2016 Born in Minneapolis, MN to the late James A. and Esther Viola Pickens Rye, James served his country … Read more
Help protect the health of forests for all, forever. 10/14/2016 World’s 10 Oldest Living Trees – on Mother Nature Network Website. At 4,841 years old, this ancient bristlecone pine is the oldest … Read more