The Rogue region alone boasts more than 30 types of coniferous trees, including temperate rain-forest species like spruce and hemlock, and dry-forest types such as ponderosa pine and juniper, as well as stands of coast redwoods, Alaskan
yellow cedar, and the endangered Port Orford cedar.
Above ground,
yellow cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis) and western red cedar (Thuja plicata) were the most consistently durable at all four test sites.
"There was this big slab of
yellow cedar he had set aside in the yard," said Chip.
Her wood-chip ruff Tongass
Yellow Cedar celebrates a tree logged for decades in our nation's largest national forest, but now frost-killed from lack of snow cover during winter months.
When termites were given no choice but to consume just one variety of wood for 6 weeks, six of the woods--redwood, Brazilian jatoba, Peruvian walnut, Honduran mahogany, Alaska
yellow cedar, and teak--showed some level of natural resistance and caused an average of better than 75 percent termite mortality.
SILVA Timber Products has expanded its range with a landmark deal to import
yellow cedar from British Columbia in Canada.
Above: The Halls consider the 20- by 80-foot
yellow cedar deck an adjunct living space.
While nootkatone, a bioactive natural component of Alaskan
yellow cedar oil, has been shown to kill ticks in high numbers, it is quite expensive to produce, according to Thomas Mather, a University of Rhode Island professor and tick expert who runs www.tickencounter.org, a website dedicated to tick prevention.
David works out of a basement suite for smaller pieces, but he is in frequent contact with other artists and with friends who supply him with the red and
yellow cedar chunks that he can work with.
David works out of a basement suite for smaller pieces, but he is in frequent contact with other artists and with friends who supply --him with the red and
yellow cedar chunks that he can work with.
Both stations were in forest dominated by Mountain Hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) with scattered
Yellow Cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) and Amabilis Fir (Abies amabliis).
yellow cedar - tall evergreen of the Pacific coast of North America often cultivated for ornament