AcknowledgementsThe Republic of Turkey, The Scientific and TechnologicalResearch Council of Turkey (TÜB˙ITAK) is greatly acknowledgedfor support of the scholarship of the researcher Esra Erbas Kizil-tas to do this study at the University of Maine. The authors wouldlike to acknowledge the contributions of Justin Crouse and ChrisWest whose hard work made this paper possible. The authorswould also like to thank U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, EngineerResearch and Development Center project 912HZ-07-2-0013 andMaine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station (MAFES) projectME09615-08MS and the Wood Utilization Research Hatch 2007-2008 project.