American Hardware Manufacturers Association
http://www.ahma.org/
Aimed at providing information to the hardware/home improvement market this association provides good information on a wide range of new products. In most cases each product has an image and a paragraph or so of description including links to the producing company if they have a web site. Lots of good stuff for ideas.

American Society of Furniture Artists
http://www.asofa.org/
This is "high class" furniture, with a whole series of "galleries" that can be examined. Beautiful pieces of work are shown along with information about furniture makers, tools, and furniture publications.

Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certified Coalition
www.sfms.com
A nation wide coalition focused on developing sustainable forestry practices. Good material but their publications are fairly thin. Most of the industry groups are represented and the process is to have a CSA approval of forestry firms as a marketing process especially in Europe. Of more use for forestry related issues but still important for the industry as a whole.

Canadian Wood Council
www.cwc.metrics.com/
A quite detailed site with lots of material from good wood building images through to consumer guides and some on line access to a wood design course from Carleton University (this is serious stuff and you would need to want to be an engineer to try it out. or even to read the lecture notes). Long term this will be an important site for an instructor to keep returning to, it will grow and provide more services over time. The consumer material has excellent resources for some student projects.A good site with some excellent technical bulletins available on-line. In addition a number of case studies with a focus on wood are well presented with images and information. The council serves as a Canadian focus for the Wood products industry.

CSIL (Milano Centre for Industrial Studies)
http://www.vol.it/csil-furniture/
This is one of the  leading European furniture industry sites.  It provides information about ongoing projects, a "World furniture Newsletter" and a range of reports.  This is a good site to get a quick look at the furniture industry in any country.

Forest Alliance of British Columbia
http://www.forest.org/
This site has a very slick front page that loads reasonably quickly. It's stated mission:"A non profit citizen's organization working to balance a healthy economy and the environment". This is a lobby group but it is very well done, excellent web design while still being fast, and lots of information. It includes a site for younger students and access to a fairly complete database on BC Forestry.

ForestNet
http://www.forestnet.com/site.html
A commercial site offering access to both companies and some journals. Good material is available and is useful on its own. Two of the journal: Forest Products Equipment Magazine and Logging and Sawmilling Journal provide almost full coverage of past editions along with good pictures. Excellent information and data available, easy to make up assignments from the material. They also provide four thorough "tours" covering: Lumber recovery, Stream crossings, Quality wood chips and Kiln drying. Each is a good look at the topic with good diagrams and text. Worth assigning to some students or to a group for the creation of a presentation.

The Forest Products Society
http://www.forestprod.org/index.html
This society is a clearinghouse for members on publications, conferences and regional activities.  It has a nice range of publications but the site is only set up to sell and advertise them with little material available on line.  Some of the topics may be of interest and worth sending for.

The Furniture Society
http://monticello.avenue.gen.va.us/Arts/Furniture/home.html
Not a great deal of online material available but probably a site worth keeping track of over time. These are serious designers of furniture and a possible source of ideas, Yale has now posted detailed outlines of courses they offer and more will be added.

Interior Value Added Wood Association
http://www.woodinfo.net/sites/ivawa/
Fundamentally an organizational site for member companies but B.C. students should be aware of the IVAWA.  Their focus is lobbying for secure wood supply for members and keeping members up to date on issues like U.S. timber quotas and Ministry of Forests directives.  They do provide the full text version of their newsletter which provides articles on various issues.  Worth knowing about and looking at periodically.

The Northern BC Connector
http://www.techcentre.bc.ca/connector/
A site that provides connections to a number of companies, cities and towns within northern BC, lots of good local information and a good look at resources, a nicely done site with each city's offerings clearly available. Good material for research by any number of school subjects.

The Northern BC Technology Centre
http://www.techcentre.bc.ca/
Set up to encourage new technology and development in the north it provides access to resources and ideas as well as lots of information on new technologies that are being tried in the north, neat stuff.

Northern Forest Products Association
http://www.pgweb.com/nfpa/
Located in Prince George this site  provides a  focus on Northern BC. There is not a great deal of data but there is some, for example a presentation by the president to northern mayors (quite good and comprehensive as long as you recognize the bias of the source). You can look up tour opportunities and get in touch with the association, all useful for Wood Products teachers in the north.  There is a "Forest Facts" section with good information and good speach on women in the timber industry.

Pine Australia
http://www.pineaust.asn.au/
This is the official site of the softwood processing industry in Australia.  It focuses on services to members and the site has little edcational material but does provide some publications of interest like structural pine products.

Pulp & Paper Workers Resource Council
http://www.pacificrim.net/~pprc/.www.html
The council represents pulp & paper workers nationwide.  The site provides good information and is focused on looking at a balanced use of the resource.  It has a "Kid's Corner" that is really excellent for elementary students.

Southern Pine Council
http://southernpine.com/
This is a slick , well designed site. In addition this is one of the major competitors for BC markets in the US and they have the advantage of a better growing season. Students need to know about these people. They have a "commercial" outlook, providing information on the kinds of projects you can do with pine (particularly treated pine) so it encourages consumption. Good ideas and good pictures. This site focuses on the manufacturing, uses and marketing of southern pine. It provides a range of examples of use from decks, docks, and bridges to pressure treated foundations. Worth visiting, the case studies have good images.

Structural Board Association
http://www.sba-osb.com/
This is a site for American OSB companies. Very good descriptions of the product and various companies. Nice set of brochures that can be ordered by mail (mostly for free) along with a set of technical sheets that can be downloaded online.  As well they now have "SpecRite" software that can be downloaded to work with OSB in specifying and design.

Triangle Wood Turners of North Carolina
http://www.RTPnet.org/~twnc/
A nice site with lots of information, tips, and articles on wood turning all available on line. A good source for visuals on wood turning products. Each of the sections is a fairly large html file (40K - 60K) and will take some time to download but it is worth the wait.