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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		U.S. Lacey Act Protects Rare Trees
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:19
	Publish Date:		2019-10-08 05:00:00
	Description:		In this month's installment of Field Notes, Scott Bowe of Kemp Station discusses how the Lacey Act protects rare trees around the world. We can all appreciate the beauty of wood. Aesthetically by its color and grain and scientifically by its carbon negative environmental footprint. Substituting wood for non-renewables is wise choice for consumers. Last week I had the opportunity to see some beautiful wood samples on the UW-Madison campus in the USDA Forest Products Laboratory Wood Collection. The Lab’s wood collection represents some 25,000 tree species with more than 100,000 wood blocks. Many of the wood samples have backing, which is a herbarium collection of leaves and flowers. This backing allows for a second means of tree identification using tree foliage from the same tree the wood sample was taken. The Forest Products Lab has the second largest wood collection in the world, second only to a collection in Holland. Not all species are created equally. Some are valued for their
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