Field identification manual for Ghanaian timbers / Rafael Arévalo [and six others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Arévalo, Rafael, author.

Ebanyenle, Emmanuel, author.

Ebeheakey, Alberta Asi, author.

Bonsu, Kofi Abban, author.

Lambog, Ophilious, author.

Soares, Richard, author.

Wiedenhoeft, Alex C., author.

Contributor:

Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.), issuing body.

Series:

General technical report FPL ; 277.

General technical report FPL ; 277

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Timber--Ghana--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Timber.

Wood--Identification--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Wood.

Wood--Anatomy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Wood--Identification.

Wood--Anatomy.

Timber--Inspection.

Ghana.

Genre:

handbooks.

Field guides

Handbooks and manuals

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).

Place of Publication:

Madison, WI : United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, May 2020.

Summary:

Ghana is a nation rich in natural resources and tropical diversity, with forests covering approximately one-fifth of the country's total land area. To ensure that future generations of Ghanaians can enjoy the benefits of such a rich forest resource, Ghana has been enacting and enforcing laws intended to ensure that wood and woodderived products are legally sourced. Compliance with and enforcement of these laws depend in part on the availability of technical or forensic expertise to validate claims of legality through the correct identification of timber during its extraction, processing, and grading. As part of a UNIDOfunded international partnership to improve timber tracking and timber forensics in the Ghanaian timber market, we present a wood identification manual for the most common commercial timbers of Ghana. This manual provides a field reference suitable for timber inspectors to conduct routine field screening of more than 100 timber species using macroscopic and physical identification features.

Notes:

"May 2020."

Includes bibliographical references (page 125) and index.

Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from cover (USFS, viewed August 27, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version : Arévalo, Rafael. Field identification manual for Ghanaian timbers.

OCLC:

1190589943