This document provides information about various types of timber, manufactured boards, forestry management practices, and the timber production process. It defines softwood and hardwood, and names three main types of manufactured board: plywood, MDF, and chipboard. Urea-formaldehyde is used as the bonding agent in chipboard. The document also discusses sustainability, features of real wood types, planing and sawing processes, stock sizes, drying methods, potential faults from drying, end uses of rough sawn timber, impacts of transportation and illegal logging, and machines used to fell trees and produce timber products.