de mint told them that if identifying wood species is called wood anatomy we identify types of wood based on their anatomical structure or model the people have been examining plant structures for 2 or 300 years what's important is to have reference material that's what they are and. that's why the kunin institute of wood research stores thousands of samples of various trees. but in my eyes on the structural features we can see here we can definitely say this word is not from a temperate or even boreal region start. that means this charcoal was definitely tropically sourced. 8 of the 20 bags they examined did contain wood from rainforests. that amounts to 40 percent of their samples 5 bags even contained red list species of endangered or restricted blood. the findings are upset ng for your highness tannen of the world wildlife fund. nothing this is been a topic for so many years to find such a catastrophic results here in germany was shocking it can't go on like this. many distributors won't take responsibility for their products origin sustainable conservation environmental protection la

wood for guilt free charcoal. thanks to the traditional forestry guidelines of modern technology and careful documentation this forest will continue supplying as much wood as it does today for centuries to come. forward he didn't know. is that it's that simple it's that there's plenty of wood right here in poland that you don't need to buy it in africa. that out there is enough deciduous trees to cover the demand for charcoal with that sort of. hopes to someday find charcoal in supermarkets that is only produced from sustainable what but in europe there are many sustainable manufacturers like this one in poland and companies that produce charcoal and electricity are the exception to the rule and so he sets off for france. one of the most modern charcoal factories in the world is here in the region. the region is also home to vast deciduous forests and yet france still imports most of his charcoal. this manufacturer wants to prove that producing charcoal and france can in fact be profitable. what it lacks in size t

native wood from responsible forestry that means the amount of wood that can be logged is limited to how much can read grow. european foresters have known this principle for centuries that's how they responded to the massive clearing of forests in the early 18th century they call it the sustainability. of gold from this region. this particular place. from 5 to make sure the charcoal is as sustainable as the managing director said it was their next appointment is with the forester again checks the production books and the woods origin. to make sure the forests are large enough to supply the amount of wood the manufacture needs are you know off he takes careful note of the numbers of hectares the age of the trees and the amount of wood extracted. from the 4 as they plant or they're not rahway. places he hasn't found a bug in the system yet but he keeps asking the manufacturers. quality manager and the forester both take all his questions. unlike in africa the amount of woodland in the e.u. is growing. in poland it went from 8800000 hectares in 1900 to 9400000 hectares in 2015 that only

into tone wood and resonance wood. fabio's customers include a number of major companies that produce musical instruments. this finally cut tone wood will be used to make violins it's been sorted by age and quality. more than 300 years ago antonio stradivari crafted his violins from wood similar to this. but right now fabio is trying to recover as much wood as he normally does in 4 years and it's going to cost a lot of money to store it. so he's asked customers and private clients to pay $300.00 euros in advance per tree trunk to cover storage costs. that's why he's choosing only the best work right now. i've got to examine every trunk carefully to determine which piece of wood would be best for each instrument and how many pieces i can get out of a truck that i might get out of me only when a 40. only top quality wood will be processed fabio keeps a close watch on all of the tree trunks even in the sawmill. here the trunks are precut along the grain this wood will be used to make sound boards for pianos. sawmill owner

has provided wood for violence guitars and pianos the wood gives the instruments an excellent sound and resonance but now fabio is trying to save what he can. but. this trunk has are good diameter and a good texture. but this crack here shows that the tree split when it was knocked over so i can't use it. at all i mean there will be. fabio wants to save as much what is he can before it's ruined by bark beetles and other pests. i love this kind of work and i love these trees. this is my passion with. me. the wood is processed at fabio small factory down in the valley this is where mountain spruce is converted into tone wood and residents would. fabio's customers include a number of major companies that produce musical instruments. this finally cut tone wood will be used to make violins it's been sorted by age and quality. more than 300 years ago antonio stradivari crafted his violins from wood similar to this. but right now fabio is trying to recover as much wood as he normally does in 4 years and it's going to cost a lot of money to store it. so he's asked customers and private clie

there's a little window here where you can actually touch the wood itself. unfortunately, we can't open up this reliquary and take this wood with us or subject it to any scientific sampling. however, what i'd really like to do is to get something like it into a proper laboratory environment where we can explore it further. >> to help him in his search, dr. kazan's starting point is a fascinating project by a 19th century french architect named charles rohault de fleury. he set out to add up all the pieces of the true cross. >> this map shows the places which he documented as having wood of the cross, and he worked out that all of this wood from all the places that he'd been to didn't come up to 10 percent of the total volume needed to put up a cross of the size required to crucify christ. if rohault de fleury is right, calvin must be wrong. >> now kazan will use de fleury's map to help locate relics that his team can then carbon-date. >> we would want to find relics, subjecting these to scientific analysis just to see how much of the legend might be true. >>

for example, i saw ben stokes arrive with alan wood jones,. the mounts of camaraderie. at the heart of this, it is of course still a competition. a competition where we have 6 contenders, just run us through them. this is another people is about. the 6isa this is another people is about. the 6 is a really good list, i think. the challenge is how do you differentiate out rank these athletes. we have katarina johnson—thompson, also, a dinner at a smith, who broke new good in terms of british sprinting. then alan wood jones, who was such a leader as well w011 jones, who was such a leader as well won the 6 nations grand slam. lewis hamilton, only michael schumacher ahead of him 4 winds in the form of him for winds ahead of him 4 winds in the form of him forwinds in ahead of him 4 winds in the form of him for winds in formula 1. i do nominated for his outstanding play for manchester city this year. then there is ben stokes, very much at there is ben stokes, very much at the centre of that ashes victory in headingley. all those moments will be revis

this method of wood carving by hand is an age old cry. about the pieces in this workshop in kong it's mock antiques then luxury contemporary design objects in demand. for hannah and adam mix which run the family owned business in the 4th generation their great grandfather founded it in 1927 of the form of $36.00 workshops only one remains in conyers the concept has been redefined. furniture is sustainable furniture has created sustainable jobs in. furniture. that help us protect and preserve our culture. design not design concept bring scandinavian minimalism together with traditional southeast european craftsmanship this symbiosis is no coincidence. the brothers were looking for ways to modernize and in 2014 they turn to a swedish designer. internationally renowned designer monica 1st lives in stockholm and normally works for well established brands such as the italian label and bessie she took on the challenge of transporting the traditional craft into the 21st century. they show. they're a vision of combining the traditional with the m

. >> a tragic christmas accident in muir woods, falling trees kill a hiker. hear from a man in the woods when a tree came crashing down today. >>> it's been a rainy christmas across the bay area, a look at when the clouds will clear and when the next storm may roll into town. >>> christmas confusion, why the homeless here on wood street are told it's time to go. >>> after christmas many shoppers will be headed right back to stores looking for a good deal. many stores won't be around for much longer. >> thanks for joining us at 11:00. i'm juliette goodrich. >> i'm brian hackney. >>> we start tonight with a deadly hike in muir woods. kpix5's andria borba spoke with a man who was in the woods when the tree started falling. >> i initially thought it was like an earthquake or something, no idea, but i never heard a sound like that. >> reporter: it was around 4:30 christmas eve when the majestic innate stillness of muir woods was shattered when five trees near hillside trail collapsed like dominoes. alex shepard visiting from new york was hiking with his mother whe

the train over their loaded with wood is going to china. on open carriages.a lawyer specializing in land rights and is among those protesting the fact that 90% of cut wood from this region is exported to china. legally, on paper, t this would still belongs to russian companies. but de facacto has already been bought by the chinese. obviously, if we use this would to make furniture, houses, paper, the value would be multiplieded tenfold. but we just sell it as raw material and serve chinese industry. soso what wowould the chinese et in russia when they are doining just fine milking us for the raw materials? >> there are barely any wood treatment plant in the farar ea. -- plants in the far east. but this client is one that is about to open. it will be the region's first wooden flat factory. the boss is just making a few final checks. >> the least we can say is that the government half attempmpts o popularize the farar east has boosted property prices and investor appetites in this sector. and the lack of competition means there is really goodd prospects for tho

of hot water and therefore a lot of wood that would come forward we save money so we can afford the wood but sadly there are a lot of families who don't care how we doing better than some we can pay for firewood the poor families current. the men collect the wood from high up in the forests of the carcasses mountains. they're still allowed to fill trees here. go get it here is 27 he comes here regularly. go to estimates that each and every house in his area consumes about $2.00 to $3.00 truckloads of wood every year. include the city and you know. all shuttle was basically cut down trees anywhere else we could cause rock slides. and that might endanger people in the village. the forest might seem lush but deforestation is rife across georgia the number of trees being cut has to be limited to ensure long term sustainability currently over 12 times that number is being felt. the work of those 2 mechanics is helping to solve the problem they're cutting solar panels. the machine dates back to world war 2 but it still works there part of the energy cooperative the systems they produce here sh

she's asking for samples of wood. and throws them down. oops. what she is trying to find out is the flow of carbon in the forest. so when we are in the forest like this and want to know how much carbon it stores, you've got to measure the diameter of all trees, so you know its size. so this one for example is... ..15.6 centimetres and once we do it... ..we paint the tree... she has followed the growth of the same batch of trees year after year to assess the role they play in the climate. they are helping us, forfree, to remove carbon from the atmosphere, and put it in the forest and lock it up in here. it's the sheer size of the forest that makes it significant. we have used graphics to show how the countless leaves absorb carbon dioxide. that's the gas heating up the planet. as human activity keeps adding more and more carbon dioxide to the air, magnificent trees like this pull a lot of it in. but chop it down and burn it, and all the carbon that has been stored inside over the many years is suddenly released back to

woods left? sec. clinton: i really can't remember. i remember working closely with joe, particularly with the standards to be applied. working with john llamavits on the grounds for impeachment along with bill weld. i shared an office with tom bell who was very focused on agri get igating and recording the facts, statements of information. so i don't remember. i do remember that starting in early summer, maybe this was through bernie i began listening to tapes and i began to listen to the tapes of president nixon talking to his staff members, talking to henry kissinger, talking to his filipino valet. and i particularly remember what we call the tape of tapes which was richard nixon taping himself listening to tapes. and i was one of several people whose job it was was to try to, insofar as possible, perfect the transcription. so we would sit there with the headphones on just exhaustingingly listening, trying to make out words. some of the transcription already occurred but some of it was garbled. it was not at all clear. but the tape

the northwoods, the east woods, the west woods. it was a perfect killing field. it was elevated ground with artillery from each side zeroed in on. infantry advancing through this ground was subject not only to going up against other infantry units in close range, in some instances, but crossfire from artillery, oncoming fire from artillery. it was devastating fighting. of all the maps in this book that were really well done, this one gives some sense of the confusing nature. this is the first hour and a half or so of fighting in the cornfield. there are a lot of arrows moving through the cornfield in the first hour and a it's very half. instructive to how confusing this was. sometimes people ask, how many times did the cornfield change hands? i have so many different answers. i do not have a precise number. it opens with general joseph hooker's army advancing to the south into the cornfield and along the hagerstown turnpike. bloody combat is breaking out early. in the first hour, there was roughly one casualty per second on the morning of september 17. one of my

they have to go far into the forest to collect wood sometimes very far sometimes we don't have to go so far but the wood with an axe tied the pieces together and carry it home on our heads for a couple to get a one room. 6 it usually takes about one or 2 hours the would last about 8 days sometimes it only lasts 5 or 6 days as there wasn't. one announcer to give him immunity i spend $300.00 m. some of the 4 hours a year collecting vote for this job it is a menial dolls and physically demanding the stoves all suppose a health risk. each year almost half a 1000000 people die prematurely from illness attributed to household air pollution in india. traditional stoves are the main source of the problem and vim and young children are the vast effect. stoves are so inefficient that divest up to 90 percent of the energy generated and require up to one 3rd of the family's income for a few then also to sponsible for a quarter of the world's black carbon emissions. a social enterprise has been working to tackle the problem of energy poverty and the role for india has developed and efficient stor

nine months after tara ord disappeared her bones were found in the woods outside town.s her family absorbed the devastating news, detectives began to comb the site searching for any clue that could lead them to the killer. here again is keith morrison with "a knock at the door." >> reporter: in the end, bones and a few teeth were all they found. there was every reason to think tara was murdered, and then dumped in the woods. but murdered how? by whom? sharon's attorney called her as soon as she heard the news. >> she was obviously distraught, devastated, hysterical, crying. now what? find out the killers and make them pay for the crime. >> reporter: prosecutor dan feinberg got the autopsy results. they were not helpful. >> only half of the bones in her body were recovered. and some of the more important bones like the hyoid bone which would show whether or not there might been a choking or strangulation was not recovered. >> reporter: the medical examiner, though, found evidence that four of tara's ribs were fractured. >> a perimortem fracture, a fracture that occurred

i am trying to reveal the beauty that is in the wood. part of that is this beautiful natural edge, which is a real characteristic of nakashima work. >> to better understand this zen modernism, i turn to ben mcnitt of tucson, one of legions of contemporary craftsmen deeply influenced by nakashima. i'd love to help you make this table. >> well, to get started, what i'd like you to do is take this chisel, and in very light little taps... >> i can see what it means to give a tree, in nakashima's words, a second life through this technique. look, i'm doing a good job, i think. >> you're doing a very good job. >> i also see why edmund bennett is dazzled when he first steps into nakashima's studio in 1963. soon, george's workshop is humming with furniture for the carderock model. dozens of pieces, including lounge chairs, benches, and headboards. bennett commissions some items, like this lamp, for as little as $110. >> it quickly became a marriage made in heaven. they recognized in each other a tremendous appreciation for design. >> that marria

flipping it coming inside woods he's looking for the block and he can't go very far.ams certainly played that well. and it led to the short game. how about the all-out hustle. because at some point watch number 36. in red harris will be coming across the field as well. a good job by williams here. look at that 36 in his hustle and warner finishing things off. third down the blitz is coming. he sees any fires the strike for first down. straight to brandin cooks. a dart from goff on a third and long. he delivers it to brandin cooks for 16. how about jared goff out here? standing firm in the pocket. what did nick bosa tell us? he told us that the crib tonight for jared goff was pressure. will that pressure was in his face and he stepped up into it. and here comes nick bosa after it and delivers a strike right down the middle. he had his own kryptonite on that play and that was delivering a downfield. he is at 300 yards passing for the night. on the rollout throwing toward hick be. on the money. the tight end inside the 40. and that will put him over 100 yards for the fou

woods left? >> no, i really can't remember. i remember working closely with joe, working with john on the grounds of foreign impeachment along with bill weld. i shared an office with a young lawyer who was in john's law firm in wisconsin whose name was john bell. he was very focused on aggregating sure and recording the statements of information. i don't remember. i do remember starting in early summer, maybe through bernie, i began listening to tapes and began to listen to the tapes of president nixon talking to his staff members, talking to henry kissinger, talking to his filipino valet. i particularly remember what we call the tape of tapes, which was richard nixon taping himself listening to tapes. i was one of several people whose job it was to try to, in so far as possible, to perfect the transcription. we would sit with the headphones on, listening, trying to make out words, some of the transcription had already occurred but some of it was garbled and was not at all clear. but the tape of tapes was a big revelation to me

there was every reason to think tara was murdered, and then dumped in the woods. but murdered how? attorney called her as soon as she heard the news. >> she was obviously distraught, devastated, hysterical, crying. now what? find out the killers and make them pay for the crime. >> reporter: prosecutor dan feinberg got the autopsy results. they were not helpful. >> only half of the bones in her body were recovered. and some of the more important bones like the hyoid bone which would show whether or not there might been a choking or strangulation was not recovered. >> reporter: the medical examiner, though, found evidence that four of tara's ribs were fractured. >> a perimortem fracture, a fracture that occurred at the time of death. >> so there's a big, big slam into her ribs somehow. >> the medical examiner clearly found that there was evidence of a violent struggle. there was evidence of blunt force trauma and that would contribute to her death. >> reporter: detectives scoured the woods, looking for anything that might tell them something. they found a belly button ring near the b

that's ethan wood. he's celebrating his third birthday.ent for the past year and a half. his parents, tricia and josiah, told us ethan has an enlarged heart and suffers from bouts of asthma and croup so severe, they've had to take him to the emergency room several times. last winter, one of seattle's coldest in recent memory, ethan was sleeping in a tent, covered with blankets, sandwiched between his parents for warmth. did you ever think, "well, this is not the place we should have our child?" >> josiah woods: we don't want our son here. we don't want to be here. but as of right now, this is the safest place for us. >> tricia woods: absolutely. >> josiah: because we know the people, we know the rules, and-- >> tricia: our family gets to stay together. >> josiah: and our family stays together. >> cooper: drug addiction is what led the woods to become homeless. for josiah it was meth. for tricia, heroin. they were living in alaska at the time. josiah's parents took care of ethan while they both got treatment. tricia came to seattle for reha

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if they are wood.ertainly that's part of this. there could be a condition of approval that allows us to continue to review storefront design moving forward. >> i just, that's fine. i could say that. i do want the word consistency to be in there. because you could review it and think it's fine and that would not be what the intent of this commission is. the motion should be that the staff can continue to review the storefronts with an eye towards consistency throughout. >> commissioner, can we add to your motion that they be engaged for the oversight and construction as well as being listed as -- >> it's something we can do. i don't think we can do that. that's a contractual agreement between the owner and a private company. >> i have submitting

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. >>> tragedy in muir woods. a tree falls,hiker, injuring another. the tree landed right on another hiker. he was pronounced dead at the scene. the muir woods are still open but that trail closed until at least after the weekend. the statement reads in part, thatsa ve that is a very rare and isolated event that may have occurred due to recent storms and wet roots around the try. >>> the plight of some mothers will be going before a judge. we are looking at their attorney's very interesting strategy. sergio, you talked with one of the mothers involved. >> reporter: yeah, we taufked with her as she was picking up presents that home in oakland bringing them to a nearby hotel. they're all going to be staying here through christmas because it's simply too cold in that house. but they are looking forward to that hearing tomorrow. misty cross loaded up a car with presents outside the property on magnolia street in oakland. christmas has been an a little cold for the kids in the house. >> we're all holding it together. we're housed at the hotel over there be

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. >> and tiger roars tiger woods leads the u.s. team to an emotional comeback win at that was twice as nice for the world's greatest golfer. >> it was an honor for me as a player and even more of an honor to be their captain. >> today, monday, december 16th, 2019 >> from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> hi, everybody, welcome to "today," thank you so much for joining us on this monday morning, savannah recovering from eye surgery we're sending her all of our love and our well wishes and we hope to speak to her a little bit later and check in. >> she is getting better, we should tell you that. >> she certainly is. >>> we're keeping a close watch on the weather, there's a winter storm spreading snow and ice, bringing travel delays, this thing is sweeping across the country. that's a shot of frederick maryland, and al is checking in now with all the latest of things we need to know good morning >> good morning, depending on which side of this front you're on,

.>>> a tragic accident in muir woods, falling trees killing a hiker. we spoke with the man who was in the woods when the trees came tumbling down. >> initially i thought it was an earthquake or something, i had no idea. i never heard it sound like that.>> reporter: around 4:30 christmas eve when a innate stillness of the woods were shattered when five trees collapsed like dominoes. alex shepherd visiting from new york was hiking with his mother when the trees fell. >> just finishing the hike when we heard this colossal noise about 300 feet away. and watched a huge redwood fall from the hillside down to the trail below. >> reporter: be hiked out to the trail but didn't know that it killed a hiker. muir woods sees 1 million visitors a day, towering redwoods, they say despite problems with people going off trail, that was not the case here. >> these were visitors exactly where they are allowed to be and it just seemed to be an unfortunate tragic event. >> reporter: rangers are not sure what caused the trees to collapse but they think the heavy rain played

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it's 2731 to 2735, a three-story wood-frame three unit residential building?article 10, individual landmark number 276 and the subject property was designed in a bozart style by architect james frafrancis dunn. it's contracted at over $3 million and a structure report was submitted to demonstrate the granting assumption would assist in the preservation of the property that might otherwise be in danger demolition. it underwent a full rehabilitation by a previous owner including full repainting of all elevations, facade restoration, structural strengthening and reroofing. the proposed rehabilitation plan includes dry-rot repair of wood elements at the base of the building, restoration of windows and to repaint the exterior, replace roof flashing and full reroof the building. estimated to cost $305,000. $305,000 over ten years. the proposed maintenance plan includes annual inspection of gutters and down-spouts, windows, front facade and roof. maintenance estimated to cost $5,048 annually and the estimated property tax savings is $35,495. a 49.46% reduction from f