Chapter 6 Commercial Lumber, Round Timbers, and Ties
Table 6–5. Organizations promulgating softwood grades
Name and address Species covered by grading rules
Cedar Shingle & Shake Bureau
515 116th Avenue NE, Suite 275
Bellevue, WA 98004–5294Western redcedar (shingles and
shakes)National Hardwood Lumber Association
P.O. Box 34518
Memphis, TN 38184–0518Baldcypress, eastern redcedarNational Lumber Grades Authoritya
406 First Capital Place
960 Quamside Drive
New Westminister, BC, Canada V3M6G2Northern white-cedar, western
redcedar, yellow-cedar, alpine fir,
amabilis fir, balsam fir, Douglas-fir,
grand fir, eastern hemlock, western
hemlock, western larch, eastern white
pine, jack pine, lodgepole pine,
ponderosa pine, red pine, western
white pine, black spruce, Sitka spruce,
red spruce, Engelmann spruce, white
spruce, tamarack, aspen, black
cottonwood, balsam poplar, red alder,
white birch
Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association, Inc.a
272 Tuttle Road, P.O. Box 87A
Cumberland Center, ME 04021Balsam fir, eastern white pine, red
pine, eastern hemlock, black spruce,
white spruce, red spruce, pitch pine,
tamarack, jack pine, northern white
cedar, aspen, mixed maple, beech,
birch, hickory, mixed oaks, yellow
poplar
Northern Softwood Lumber Bureaua
272 Tuttle Road, P.O. Box 87A
Cumberland Center, ME 04021Eastern white pine, jack pine, red pine,
pitch pine, eastern spruce (red, white,
and black), balsam fir, eastern
hemlock, tamarack, eastern
cottonwood, aspen yellow poplar
Redwood Inspection Servicea
405 Enfrente Drive, Suite 200
Novato, CA 94949RedwoodSouthern Cypress Manufacturers Association
400 Penn Center Boulevard Suite 530
Pittsburgh, PA 15235BaldcypressSouthern Pine Inspection Bureaua
4709 Scenic Highway
Pensacola, FL 32504Longleaf pine, slash pine, shortleaf
pine, loblolly pine, Virginia pine,
pond pine, sand pine, baldcypress
West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureaua
Box 23145
6980 SW. Varns Road
Portland, OR 97223Douglas-fir, western hemlock, western
redcedar, incense-cedar, Port-Orford-
cedar, yellow-cedar, western true firs,
mountain hemlock, Sitka spruce,
western larch
Western Wood Products Associationa
Yeon Building, 522 SW Fifth Avenue
Portland, OR 97204–2122Ponderosa pine, western (Idaho) white
pine, Douglas-fir, sugar pine, western
true firs, western larch, Engelmann
spruce, incense-cedar, western
hemlock, lodgepole pine, western
redcedar, mountain hemlock, red
alder, aspen, subalpine fir, Sitka
spruce, Port-Orford cedar
aPublishes grading rules certified by the Board of Review of the American Lumber Standard Committee as
conforming to the American Softwood Lumber Standard PS–20.