The final piece, however, will not be for sale; instead, it will be a gift to the friend who kindly provided the yellow birch wood for free. This project serves as a reminder of the importance of ...

As a result of its heavy, strong, close-grained, and even textured wood, yellow birch is the most important and valuable of the native birches as a quality hardwood. In regards to its ecological ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Yellow birch is perhaps the most important lumber species in its genus. Today, its close-grained wood (dark-brown to reddish-brown) is used for interior ...

Yellow birch is the most important lumber species in its genus. Today, its close-grained wood (dark-brown to reddish-brown) is used for interior finishes, veneers, tool handles, snowshoe frames ...

The yellow birch is one of the workhorses of the Northern forest: one of the largest hardwoods to grow in the north, the wood is used extensively for flooring, cabinetry, even toothpicks!

Rick Kramer, the director of sales for B45, which uses Québécois yellow birch wood for bats rather than the traditional ash or maple, was showing off a few dozen samples of his choicest lumber.

The yellow birch, which is typically found natively in northern Indiana, also has simple finely toothed leaves and twigs that smell like wintergreen when scraped. Learn more from Purdue Extension ...

Then I remembered what dendrologist Eileen Willard of Kennebunk had mentioned on a winter tree walk a few years ago: the little curlicues of bark from a yellow birch are loaded with resinous oils ...

B45 bats are made from yellow birch wood, sourced from the Eastern Townships. In fact, yellow birch is the provincial tree of Quebec, and the majority in North America grow in the province ...