Lumber does not come from the an 18-wheeler trailer. Rather, hardwood lumber is sawn from trees with leaves, not needles, and the trees are usually 75 years old or older. Most of these hardwood trees ...

Joe Wilp climbs a narrow ladder, seats himself in a little crow’s-nest chair, and pulls levers. A greedy metal claw plucks a rough-barked log at least 3 feet in diameter from the truck bed, swings it ...

Log cabins in West Virginia's Appalachian Mountains have a story to tell: when people leave, the forest takes over. Researchers at West Virginia University are using tree-ring dating to determine not ...

Brian Presnell is a great listener. He has to be in his line of work. Every day, he hears histories, maybe some secrets, and dreams for the future. Presnell, of course, is talking about listening to ...

Photo Description: Of five nonnative tree species invasive in the southeastern USA, only logs of Triadica sebifera, Chinese tallowtree, successfully produced edible shiitake mushrooms. On farm trials ...

A harvester crane processes a log on a thinning project in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The project was led by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, the result of ...

Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 years, and he’s found a complex world few ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Unlike its sweeping Democratic counterparts, which aimed to decarbonize every ...

DARBY, Mont. - Crews are logging pine beetle infested timber from Lost Trail Powder Mountain Ski Area south of Darby. The project is part of an ongoing effort to remove beetle killed trees in ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Logs and fallen trees charred by the devastating Eaton wildfire in January that scorched more than 14,000 acres (57 square km) east of Los Angeles are being repurposed to ...