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Appendix A—Wood Species
Common wood species used in wooden pallet manufacturing
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Class number Class name Species
North American hardwoods
1 High-density eastern hardwoods American beech
Ash (green, white)
Birch (sweet, yellow)
Black cherry
Black locust
Dogwood
Elm (rock, slippery)
Hickory
Maple (black, red, sugar)
Persimmon
Tan oak
2 Bigleaf maple
Oregon ash
3 Medium-density eastern hardwoods Ash (black, pumpkin)
Hackberry
Maple (silver, striped)
Magnolia
Paper birch
Sweetgum
Sycamore
Tupelo
4 Western hardwoods California black oak
Cascara
Chinquapin
Madrone
Myrtle
Oregon white oak
6 Red alder
7 Low-density eastern hardwoods American basswood
Aspen (bigtooth, quaking)
Buckeye
Butternut
Catalpa
Cottonwood (balsam, black)
Eastern poplar
21 Eastern oaks Red oak
White oak
29 Yellow poplar
North American softwoods
11 Douglas-fir Douglas-fir (coast, interior west,
interior north, interior south)
Western larch
12 Hem–Fir Fir (California red, grand, noble,
Pacific silver, white)
Hemlock (western, mountain)
13 SPF Baldcypress
Eastern hemlock
Fir (balsam, subalpine)
Pine (eastern white, jack, lodgepole,
Monterey, Norway, Ponderosa, sugar,
western white)
Redwood
Southern pine (pitch, pond)
Spruce (black, Engelmann, red, sitka,
Virginia, white)
Western redcedar
