Library Catalog

• Finance Help for Small Business
• Harvesting Methods and Costs in Colorado
• Opportunities for Making Wood Products in Colorado
• Presentations
• Treating Wood in Colorado
• Working with Beetle-Killed Trees
• Working with Colorado Commercial Tree Species

Finance Help for Small Business

• Small Business Financing Information (258 KB PDF)
• A Simple Profit Planning and Cost Management System for Small Sawmills (388 KB PDF)
• Excel forms that supplement the above article (54 KB XLS)

Harvesting Methods and Costs in Colorado

• Literature Review on Restoration Thinning Equipment and Systems (56 KB PDF)
• Literature Review on Skidding and Yarding on Steep Slopes (85 KB PDF)

Opportunities for Making Wood Products in Colorado

General Overviews

• Opportunities for Making Wood Products from Small Diameter Trees in Colorado (1.3 MB PDF)
• Wood Use in Colorado at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (172 KB PDF)
• Our Industry, Our Forests, and You (148 KB PDF)

Animal Bedding

• The Use of Wood Shavings and Sawdust as Bedding and Litter for Small Pet Mammals in Colorado (0.1 KB PDF)
• The Use of White Fir Shavings as Bedding for Laboratory Animals (35 KB PDF)

Biomass

• Where Wood Works: Harnessing the Energy of Woody Biomass in Colorado (2011) (4.9 MB)
• Conventional Wisdoms of Woody Biomass Utilization (80 KB)

Firewood

• Making Wood Work for Colorado Camps (27.7 MB)

Lumber

• Feasibility of Grading Lumber Produced by Independent Mills in the Interior West (306 KB PDF)
• Overview of Lumber Grades and Building Codes (124 KB PDF)

Pallets

• A Profile of Wood Supplied to Pallet Manufacturers by Sawmills Along the Front Range of Colorado (71 KB PDF)
• An Assessment of Pallet Lumber Supply and Manufacturing in Colorado (215 KB PDF)

Pellets

• Wood Pellet Manufacturing Production and Equipment and Cost Study for Walden, Colorado (398 KB PDF)

Presentations

Can Forests Meet Our Energy Needs? The Future of Forest Biomass in CO (Feb 2008)

• Conference Agenda (28 KB PDF)
• Presentations are posted on CSU Libraries' Digital Repository

Treating Wood in Colorado

Drying

• Air Dry Yard Scorecard (126 KB PDF)
• Part I: Operating an Effective Air Dry Yard (45 KB PDF)
• Part II: Operating an Effective Air Dry Yard (26 KB PDF)
• Causes and Cures for Warp in Drying Boards (85 KB PDF)

Working with Frozen Timber

• Sawing Frozen Timber with Circular Headrigs (311 KB PDF)

Preservatives

• Double-diffusion Treatment of Ponderosa and Lodgepole Pine (151 KB)
• Sales, Preservatives and Safety (138 KB PDF)

Working with Beetle-Killed Trees

Mountain Pine Beetle / Blue-Stain

• Quick Facts on Blue-Stained Wood (638 KB PDF)
• Beating the Blues: Frequently Asked Questions about the Mountain Pine Beetle and the Utilization of Blue-Stained Lodgepole Pine Timber in Colorado (493 KB PDF)

Working with Colorado Commercial Tree Species

Forest Products Utilization Handbook

The new 2010 Forest Products Utilization handbook contains new and extensive information for the harvesting and manufacturing of forest products. Read more...

Cottonwood

• Cottonwood Use Guide (460 KB PDF)

Douglas-Fir

• Douglas-Fir Use Guide (856 KB PDF)

Engelmann Spruce

• Engelmann Spruce Use Guide (872 KB PDF)

Lodgepole Pine

• Lodgepole Pine Use Guide (879 KB PDF)

Piñon Pine

• Piñon Pine Use Guide (249 KB PDF)
• Progress Report on Turning Piñon to Pellets Handout (1.9 MB PDF)
• Beyond Firewood and Fence Posts: Exploring and Expanding the Commercial Potential of Colorado's Piñon-Juniper Woodlands (0.4 KB PDF)
• Management Guidelines for Expanding Piñon Nut Production (83 KB PDF)
• Piñon-Juniper Ecosystems Management Report (943 KB PDF)

Ponderosa Pine

• Ponderosa Pine Use Guide (871 KB PDF)

Subalpine Fir

• Subalpine Fir Use Guide (1.6 MB PDF)

White Fir

• White Fir Use Guide (857 KB PDF)
• The Use of White Fir Shavings as Bedding for Laboratory Animals (35 KB PDF)
• Report on the Test Results for Colorado White Fir (Abies concolor) from the Pagosa Springs District, San Juan National Forest (98 KB PDF)