President’s Message Jan/Feb 2024
By the time you read this, we are all of a sudden into a new year. Wow, how time flies. I hope everyone had a fine holiday season and is … Read more
Arthur Lee
Importing wood into the US
Attached is information regarding importing wood products into the USA along with a PDF of Form 585 import permit. Note that in general if you bring wood samples that are not … Read more
January-February 2024 World of Wood Volume 77-1
Is now available in the Members World of Wood Archive.
Join us at the St. Louis Woodworking Show February 23-25, 2024
Dear All, After a couple of years of limited shows and events since Covid, The Woodworking Shows are getting up to speed and have added more cities to their 2024 … Read more
Join IWCS at the Kansas City, MO Woodworking Show March 15-17, 2024
Dear All, After a couple of years of limited shows and events since Covid, The Woodworking Shows are getting up to speed and have added more cities to their 2024 … Read more
Trees, plants face new heat threat
Pacific Northwest’s high temps ‘cooked’ widespread foliageEnvironmental Protection Agency scientist Peter Beedlow examines dead Douglas fir trees Oct. 27 in Oregon’s Willamette National Forest. The trees died from insect damage … Read more
Message from Willem Hurkmans, Publication Chair
A disk of Gymnanthes Lucida [Euphorbiaceae] collected on December 7, 2005 by Alan Curtis & Willem Hurkmans near the archaeological site of Kohunlich, Quintana Roo, Mexico. I counted 76 growth rings.
Are you interested in learning more about the International Wood Collectors Society?
Click here to read a recent public version of the IWCS World of Wood, our bi-monthly journal publication. Members receive 6 editions of the World of Wood per year, in … Read more