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The entity posted thusly:

WTF is "stickering"?

When stacking roughcut lumber fresh off the mill,
you need to leave airspaces around the boards so
they'll dry. One way to do this is to take all the odd
sized offcuts left over from cutting the lumber and
cutting them into roughly 1x1 sticks, as long as
your intended pile of lumber is to be wide. Then
when you stack the lumber, the first row will go on
a set of timbers, then a layer of these 1x1 "stickers"
go just above the first layer of boards, each just
above the base timbers. Alternate layers of fresh
cut boards and stickers.

Once it's dry, the use of stickers is a lot less critical,
but a lot of people will use them anyway so that
changes of humidity in the air don't cause differences
in moisture across the stack.

Make sense?

Yes, thanks! I was envisioning something like adhesive-backed
paper/plastic. Makes a lot of sense.