How To Identify Wood Logs. If the bark has small drops of pitch on it or seeping out of it, it is probably a softwood log. I know most pros can identify wood by experience, but there seems to be some discrepancy with this.
If there is any green colour visible or bark is hard to peel, the log is not yet dry. There is a posting for free wood and the poster doesn't know what type of tree the logs came from. A few years ago, an investigator asked them to id a confiscated shipment of wood that was under suspicion of containing an endangered species.
So far the only wood i've mastered in identifying is pecan.
I'm supposed to pick them up tomorrow but just want to be sure it is not something difficult to split. Use leaves and bark for identifiers. Fish and wildlife forensics lab in oregon—the world's only such facility—has a man named ed espinoza as their deputy lab director. If they are dark in colour and cracked, they are dry.