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	Douglas Fir
		Douglas fir is one of the primary forest trees in Colorado, in north, central and western Wyoming, and the mountains of northern New Mexico.
		Pseudotsuga ("pseudo-hemlock") was devised for the Douglas fir and its relatives.
		Douglas fir wood is of very high quality; it is used for everything from house construction and traditional shipbuilding to fine furniture, paneling, and floors.
	home.earthlink.net /~swier/DouglasFir.html (1090 words)

	Douglas-fir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The species as a whole is generally known as simply 'Douglas-fir', or as 'Common Douglas-fir'; other less widely used names include 'Oregon Douglas-fir', 'Douglas Tree', and 'Oregon Pine'.
		Douglas-firs are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Autumnal Moth, Bordered White, The Engrailed, Pine Beauty and Turnip Moth.
		Coast Douglas-fir cone, from a tree grown from seed collected by David Douglas
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douglas-fir (535 words)

	Douglas Fir: Coastal wood, Weyerhaueser
		Douglas fir is stable in use, holds nails and screws securely, readily accepts glues, and is boldly attractive when left exposed to view in applications such as post and beam construction.
		Douglas fir's strength and the large dimensions in which it is available make structural uses the outstanding field for this species.
		Douglas fir is equally at home as concealed framing, exposed roof beams and rafters or fascias, barges, pergolas and other external structures.
	www.weyerhaeuser.com /coastalwood/WYDOUGLASFIR (864 words)

	Coast Douglas-fir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Douglas squirrel harvests and caches great quantities of Douglas-fir cones for later use.
		The tallest specimen is the "Brummit Fir", 100.3 m tall, at East Fork Brummit Creek in Coos County, Oregon, the stoutest is the "Queets Fir", 4.85 m diameter, in the Queets River valley, Olympic National Park, Washington.
		The shoots are brown to olive-green, turning gray-brown with age, smooth, though not as smooth as fir shoots, and finely pubescent with short dark hairs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coast_Douglas-fir (1689 words)

	"WAIFIR" - The Douglas Fir brand of Waimea Sawmillers Ltd
		Douglas Fir is widely used in the construction industry for light and heavy framing, piling and plywood, such as roof trusses, wall frames, large beams and concrete formwork.
		Douglas Fir is renowned as a refractory species because of the difficulty of getting chemicals into both the heartwood and the dry sapwood.
		Douglas Fir does not have the low density core characteristics of Radiata Pine.
	www.waisaw.co.nz /fir.htm (678 words)

	Douglas Fir
		Douglas Fir and Western Larch, in both visual and MSR grades are used in roof and floor trusses, for gable ends and wall panels, pre-cut wall framing packages, wall sub-components, corners, doors, beams and frames.
		Douglas Fir is also the species of choice for sound barrier walls along freeways or for highway guard rails which demand a wood that is treatable, paintable and strong with excellent fastening capability.
		Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is not a true fir at all, nor a pine or spruce.
	www.tnloghomes.com /process/df.shtml (5284 words)

	Douglas Fir
		Douglas fir is an important and valuable timber tree, accounting for nearly ¼ of the total lumber produced in North America.
		Douglas fir is a medium-sized evergreen tree with a short pyramidal symmetrical crown at the top of a clear straight trunk.
		Douglas fir is most commonly found on cool, moist, north facing slopes or canyon walls.
	extension.usu.edu /rangeplants/Woody/dougfir.htm (438 words)

	Douglas-fir samples properties manufacturers :: musterkiste.de
		The Douglas fir is originally native to western North America, growing at higher altitudes along the Pacific coast of British Columbia to California and inland from Alberta to North Mexico.
		Douglas fir is the most widely used wood for building and construction.
		The Douglas fir is differentiated in different variants, whereby the green coast Douglas fir is the most important in Europe.
	www.musterkiste.de /en/holz/pro/1028_Douglas-fir.html (480 words)

	Douglas-fir
		The hyphen in the common name indicates that Douglas-fir is not a "true" fir: it is not a member of the genus Abies.
		The Douglas-firs have given botanists fits due to their similarity to other trees.
		Douglas is known for introducing many Canadian native conifers to Europe.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/d/do/douglas_fir.html (219 words)

	Douglas Fir Douglas Fur Lumber Wood
		Douglas Fir is a very beautiful and versatile wood and has been successfully used since the 1800s as the wood of choice for so many home building and remodeling projects.
		Douglas Fir also has some of the desirable rot resistant qualities, which allow it to be used outdoors.
		One unique feature of McGee Douglas Fir is that it is "vertical grain" — this designation means that the grain of the wood is very straight and parallel with the next growth ring, which creates a quite uniform appearance and also makes the Fir less likely to warp or twist on the job.
	www.mcgeelumber.com /douglas-fir.htm (316 words)

	Tree Book - Douglas-fir
		Because the Douglas-fir is not a true fir, the common name is hyphenated.
		Douglas-fir can grow with western redcedar, hemlock, and grand fir, with a lush layer of salal, huckleberries, Oregon-grape, and sword fern beneath.
		It was named after David Douglas, the Scottish botanist who introduced many of British Columbia's native conifers to Europe.
	www.for.gov.bc.ca /hfd/library/documents/treebook/douglasfir.htm (366 words)

	Douglas Fir
		Douglas fir is not a true fir, pine or spruce but a separate distinct species known as Pseudotsuga menziesii.
		Douglas Fir is straight grained, moderately heavy wood with limited resin.
		It is named after Arcibald Menzies the Scottish physician and naturalist who first discovered the tree in Vancouver Island in 1791, and David Douglas, the Scottish botanist who later identified the tree in the Pacific Northwest in 1826.
	www.philcatlogbuildings.co.uk /douglas_fir.htm (205 words)

	California Douglas Fir Plant Community and its plants.
		Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) Forest plant community brings to mind dripping needles and tall dark canyons of road way.
		Rainfall is high, (25-65 inches) where the Douglas fir lives, only exceeded by the areas where the redwoods grow.
		Douglas fir in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California
	www.laspilitas.com /comhabit/California_Douglas_Fir_Forest.html (314 words)

	Douglas Fir
		The Douglas Fir tree, Pseudotsuga menziessi glauca, is a splendid pyramidal evergreen.
		Douglas Fir trees have dark green or blueish green needles.
		It is a rapid growing hardy tree that grows well in a variety of soils.
	naturehills.com /new/product/productdetails.aspx?proname=Douglas+Fir (95 words)

	Douglas-fir - Pseudotsuga menziesii
		The Douglas fir is vulnerable to clay because it is a wet substance and it can rot the roots.
		The common name of the Douglas-fir is hyphenated because it isn't a true fir.
		It was named after David Douglas, the Scottish botanist.
	www.blueplanetbiomes.org /douglas_fir.htm (330 words)

	Douglas fir -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A Douglas fir has long, flat, spirally arranged needles that grow directly from the branch.
		Certain softwoods, such as pine, spruce, larch, and Douglas fir, possess resin canals.
		Conifers dominate—spruce and fir in northern Maine; white pine in Michigan and Wisconsin; ponderosa pine and...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9031052 (817 words)

	Douglas fir
		Doug'las pine', Doug'las spruce', Oregon fir, Oregon pine.
	www.infoplease.com /ipd/A0414695.html (57 words)

	Douglas fir on Encyclopedia.com
		A Douglas fir beam over the stove and a 13-foot granite island are features of this home in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania.
		Dan McCracken stacks Douglas Fir trees on railcars for at a log yard in Aberdeen, Washington.
		Ken Wu, of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, rests a hand on an old growth Douglas fir growing next to a cedar in Vancouver Island's Walbran Valley.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-D1ouglfr.asp (800 words)

	Bigcone Douglas-fir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bigcone Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga macrocarpa) is an evergreen conifer native to the mountains of southern California, occurring from the San Rafael Mountains in central Santa Barbara County and the southwest of the Tehachapi Mountains of southwestern Kern County, south to Julian in San Diego County.
		Bigcone Douglas-fir has several adaptations to tolerate and survive wildfire, notably the very thick bark, and the presence of numerous adventitious buds on the upper side of the branches; this enables the trees to survive even crown fires which burn off all the branchlets, the apparently dead trees becoming green again the following spring.
		The largest known Bigcone Douglas-fir is 53 m (173 feet) tall, 231 cm (91 inches) in diameter, and is estimated to be from 600 to 700 years of age.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bigcone_Douglas-fir (826 words)

	Coast Douglas-fir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coast Douglas-fir is the dominant tree in the Pacific Northwest, occurring in nearly all forest types, competes well on most parent materials, aspects, and slopes.
		Seeds from the northern portion of Coast Douglas-fir's range tend to be larger than seed from the south.
		Coast Douglas-fir seedlings are not a preferred browse of Black-tailed Deer and Wapiti, but can be an important food source for these animals during the winter when other preferred forages are lacking.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coast_Douglas-fir (1689 words)

	Douglas Fir
		Douglas fir is one of the primary forest trees in Colorado, in north, central and western Wyoming, and the mountains of northern New Mexico.
		Pseudotsuga ("pseudo-hemlock") was devised for the Douglas fir and its relatives.
		Douglas fir wood is of very high quality; it is used for everything from house construction and traditional shipbuilding to fine furniture, paneling, and floors.
	home.earthlink.net /~swier/DouglasFir.html (1090 words)

	Douglas Fir Resort :: Typhoon
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	www.typhoon.co.uk /directory/302705_douglas.html (131 words)

	Douglas Fir Survivability
		Douglas Fir Survivability Is Determined By Amount Of Damage To:
		Determine amount of fire injury which will kill a Douglas Fir.
		Protect fire-weakened Douglas Fir from bark beetle attack.
	www.fs.fed.us /r2/psicc/hayres/douglas_fir.htm (437 words)

	Fir, Douglas
		Douglas Fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii The Douglas fir is one of the fastest growing of the evergreen forest trees, much faster then the Frazier.
		The balanced, controlled release fertilizer is complimented with Bio stimulants that assist the plant with nutrients.
		Used as a stand alone specimen or in rows for a stately drive, youâll enjoy this ever popular evergreen.
	www.greenwoodnursery.com /page.cfm/21762 (311 words)

	Douglas Fir Tree Information
		Douglas-fir is not related to the true firs.
		They are reddish-brown to gray, 3" long and do not dissipate to spread seed as do true firs (Abies sp.).
		The cones open in the late summer to disperse the seeds and will continue to hang on the trees through the fall.
	www.hiddenspringstreefarm.com /Douglas.htm (594 words)

	Douglas Fir Products - made from real Douglas Fir needles from the Northwest
		This tea is made from 100% Spring harvested Douglas Fir tips from the coastal wildlands and mountains of Northern California and the Pacific Northwest.
		Second in size only to the two California Sequoia species, Douglas Fir grows to enormous proportions and forms pure stands over much of the Northwest.
		When my first herbal medicine teacher had us try Douglas Fir tea on a class camping trip, I thought it would taste, well, like a tree.
	www.juniperridge.com /sumbpn_dougfir.htm (282 words)

	Douglas-fir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coast Douglas-fir cone, from a tree grown from seed collected by David Douglas
		The species as a whole is generally known as simply 'Douglas-fir', or as 'Common Douglas-fir'; other less widely used names include 'Oregon Douglas-fir', 'Douglas Tree', and 'Oregon Pine'.
		A Californian Native American myth explains that each of the three-ended bracts are a tail and two tiny legs of the mice who hid inside the scales of the tree's cones, which was kind enough to be the enduring sanctuary for them during forest fires.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douglas-fir (488 words)

	Douglas-fir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coast Douglas-fir cone, from a tree grown from seed collected by David Douglas
		Douglas-firs are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Autumnal Moth, Bordered White, The Engrailed, Pine Beauty and Turnip Moth.
		The species as a whole is generally known as simply 'Douglas-fir', or as 'Common Douglas-fir'; other less widely used names include 'Oregon Douglas-fir', 'Douglas Tree', and 'Oregon Pine'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douglas-fir (535 words)

	Douglas Fir
		Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), evergreen conifer of the PINE family (Pinaceae).
		Douglas fir resembles true firs, hemlocks and spruces but is most closely related to the LARCH.
		The leaves of the Douglas fir are evergreen, needlelike and 2-3 cm long.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0002375 (174 words)

	Douglas Fir
		West of the Cascade Mountains, Douglas fir dominates the forested landscapes often accounting for 90% or more of the trees in an area.
		Disturbance in the form of wildfires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and landslides have perpetuated these forests in Douglas fir for centuries.
		Today, foresters mimic the cycles of natural disturbance and renewal, managing commercial timberlands primarily in natural stands on long rotations for a variety of forest values.
	www.softwood.org /Douglas%20Fir%20Web/eDougFir/EN/DougFir.htm (69 words)

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