STARKVILLE, Miss.—An international wood society is recognizing Mississippi State researchers with a prestigious award for groundbreaking work harnessing artificial intelligence to identify wood ...

The burning of a Yule log is a long-standing tradition which provides heat in cold winters and holiday symbolism for many ...

Wood species identification using image analysis techniques represents a burgeoning field that integrates advanced imaging technologies with machine learning algorithms to address critical challenges ...

Sustainable Bioproducts Assistant Professor Frank Owens examines a red oak specimen from the David A. Kribs wood collection, one of the nation’s largest recently acquired by the MSU College of Forest ...

Detailed information about the expansive contents of ESF's wood collection – 40,000 samples that represent 100 years of gathering wood from around the globe – will soon be made available to scientists ...

News about the poaching and smuggling of threatened species often centers on products like tiger bone, rhino horn or pangolin ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon State University’s College of Forestry is the new home of a forensics lab that fights the illegal timber trade, a $1 billion annual problem for the U.S. forest products ...

Wood has always carried more than just physical structure — it holds memory. The rings reveal storms, droughts, and years of growth. The grain carries light and shadows in patterns that can’t be ...

Tool developed by SFB, UNODC and UNESP marks a major advance in tackling illegal logging, offering high-accuracy species ...