We all know lumber comes from trees, but trees were not designed for lumber. Man has to take something that naturally grows in a cylindrical shape, dry it out and make it rectangular. It’s a peculiar ...

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To stop California’s 6 million urban trees from knocking out power lines, crashing through houses, or lying across streets when they die, humans have to intervene. This week, a handful of arborists ...

Tucked into a squat building just across the Los Angeles River from downtown Los Angeles is an unexpected sight, set in the middle of the nation’s second-biggest city: a working lumber mill. The dusty ...

Angel City Lumber says it will likely be able to produce enough low-cost, millwork-grade board for 500 rebuilt homes—and provide some closure along with them. Recycling after natural disasters is a ...

Stoltze Timber Systems in Columbia Falls is receiving $1 million in U.S. Forest Service funding to support the development of a wood processing plant and allow for the implementation of new timber ...

As people whose homes were destroyed by the Eaton Fire prepare to rebuild, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continues to remove debris from the area, including trees that are so badly damaged they ...

An organization is looking at potentially scaling back plans for building a pair of biomass processing plants in Tuolumne and Lassen counties to produce wood pellets that would be moved through the ...