New COFORD Connect notes available

A series of new COFORD Connect Notes have just been released, these cover a broad range of topics including silviculture, forest reproductive material, wood energy and wood technology.

• Understanding and managing windthrow (pdf 389Kb)  
• Oak breeding in the Netherlands: lessons learned on a recent Future Trees Trust (FTT) study tour, by John Fennessy, Jo Clark and Peter Savill (pdf 738Kb)  
• Embedded energy in wood fuels, by Pieter D. Kofman, Glen Murphy (pdf 572Kb)  

And four new Wood Technology Notes by Bill Robinson and Bob Davis

• Timber preservative treatment and durability - solid timber - a background (pdf 428Kb)  
• Irish standards on timber fencing - general information (pdf 639Kb)  
• Wooden joinery (windows and doors) (pdf 652Kb)  
• Plywood (pdf 866Kb)