Engineered wood is a wood composite siding. Its wood fibers are coated in waxes, resins and other ingredients, then pressed under heat into the texture of real wood. Cedar siding is all wood.

The Adirondacks provide many examples. The white cedar bark used for siding on the Barque of Pine Knot is strong, durable, insect-resistant and waterproof but most remarkably, it is an excellent ...