Newsweek

Blind Woodworker Can Identify Wood by Smell

A skilled craftsman is wowing customers by carving intricate items and works of art out of lumps of wood despite being blind - using his senses of touch and smell. Chris Fisher, 52, is the United ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Wildlife Forensics Lab Uses Tech To Sniff, Identify Illegal Wood

Before you prosecute thieves, you have to know what they stole. It's the same for crimes against nature. The world's only lab dedicated solely to wildlife forensics is in southern Oregon. The lab ...
Mongabay

Portable scanners that identify timber species could detect illegal logging

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Wood anatomist José Arlete Camargos identifying cedar wood log in Acre, Brazil. Photo credit: Project NIRS ID. A team of scientists at the ...
SUNY-ESF

ESF Shares a Century of Knowledge about Wood

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 ...
WGBH

Wildlife Forensics Lab Uses Tech To Sniff, Identify Illegal Wood

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NPR

Wildlife Forensics Lab Uses Tech To Sniff, Identify Illegal Wood

Before you prosecute thieves, you have to know what they stole. It's the same for crimes against nature. The world's only lab dedicated solely to wildlife forensics is in southern Oregon. The lab ...