Industry Link
http://www.industrylink.com/
This is a link to industry sites. Looks fairly well done and quite professional. It covers all industries so it is necessary to narrow the search for what you want to look at. Because it covers all industry it is not that easy to locate specific material, the search system does not provide good results without a lot of information and if you have that much information you could go to the site in the first place.

IRIS Forest Products Industry Directory
http://primusweb.com/forest/
An excellent directory site focused on forest products.   A wide range of companies can be accessed through a logical menu. It also includes a search facility to get quick access to a specific company (if it is in the data base) or to a topic area.  Has a Virtual Tours link which has many useful sites that include both museum and forestry companies.

Steve Shooks Directory of Forest Products, Wood Science and Marketing
http://www.forestdirectory.com
Probably the most complete listing of useful Internet sites on forestry, wood products and marketing wood products. Lots of links, good design, most serious searches of the Internet for forestry information can start here rather than a search engine.

WWW Virtual Library: Forestry
http://www.metla.fi/info/vlib/Forestry/
Another major directory for access to world forestry information, it has fewer links for wood products as it concentrates on the forestry aspect. It provides a wide range of sites including discussion groups and events

BC Government Information: BC STATS
http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca
This is the BC Statistical agency with a wide range of statistics available, from population to economy to specific industry sectors. A primary source of material for student research. The 1996 census is available. Most material is accessible by anyone on the web though there is a subscriber area. The "Forestry" section of the Quick Facts is a thorough look at the industry in 1996 and useful for general information for teacher and students. The more detailed material is generally available in pdf (Acrobat reader) format but all of them can be readily downloaded.

Forest Renewal
www.forestrenewal.bc.ca/
Basically a promotional site for Forest Renewal BUT it does give reasonable detail on projects currently funded so you can get a picture of the kind of initiatives being followed in BC. They have now added a teacher's guide (which can be downloaded) and a virtual museum experience, quite well done and valuable for forestry information.

Forestry Australia
http://www.nafi.com.au/
A well designed site with lots of good resources about the Australian industry. Includes a showcase of outstanding products, forestry information, and current issues. There is a student and teachers section as well as a magazine "Timber Trek" designed for students.. An excellent site, good for students to research and play in.

Industry Canada
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/engdoc/sitemap.html
This is the best starting access to the wide range of information available from Industry Canada.  The Canadian Company database is worth the whole site. Nice project to have students pull up the company data and get the reports for each of the companies in the local area that in the data base. Gives a good idea of company size, markets, products.

Canada: Residential Furniture Sector
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_indps/sectors/engdoc/resf_hpg.html
This is the direct access to the furniture information in the database.  Along with a wide range of reports the most recent "Benchmark Study" (January 1998) is a thorough look at the furniture industry in Canada along with "best practices" examples.

National Forestry Database Program
http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/cfs/proj/iepb/nfdp/
This provides 1995 and some 1996 forestry statistics. Very complete Canadian information, more useful for Forestry students but still has good data on the forest inventory. Useful site for information when students do a simulation.

Pacific Forestry Centre
http://www.pfc.forestry.ca/
A significant amount of forestry related information with some focus on aboriginal land claims issues. Good material and good link into other government forestry sites. Primarily of interest to forestry students but an excellent overview of material on B.C.

USDA Forest Service
http://www.fs.fed.us/
This is the main access site to the US Forest Service material, very comprehensive and lots of data to be dug out of the corners. It has a good index that is easy to use and lots of links to other locations.  Depending on your situation you may be interested in the software that can be downloaded from the service, mostly focused on forestry issues, and the national database material that is available on the web.

USDA Forest Service: Forest Products Laboratory (FPL)
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/
This is one of the key sites for students to obtain on-line research papers and information on a wide range of forest products.  They provide an extensive publication list on topics like "Decay processes and Bioprocessing", "Durability" and "Papermaking and Recycling".  Most of the papers are available on line as Acrobat Reader (PDF) documents so they must be downloaded first and read using the Acrobat software but it is worth the work.

US Forestry Service/ Virginia Tech: Southern Research Station
http://www.se4702.forprod.vt.edu/
Good material here on a range of automation projects like process control, CT Scan, and Computer vision . They provide an excellent listing of their 20 most recent publications in PDF format, all focused on wood products, for example " Potential material sources for board products: used pallets and wastewood at landfills".  The list of their standard documents, again available over the web, has many topics of use to students.

Treevia
http://vp.schoolnet.ca/virtprod/TREEVIA/gcg/treevia.html
Hosted in School Net by the Canadian Ministers of forestry this is a fairly comprehensive quiz about forestry, ecology and wood products. It will tell you how much you know but it takes about 20 minutes to complete with lots of traffic between you and School Net to get your questions marked.