Prior to his appointment as the Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association Chairman, Matt also served as the chair of ...

Lumber for sale at a Kenai Home Depot store. (Riley Board/KDLL) A state Senate bill proposed by Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, would put lumber evaluation in the hands of local sawmill operators, ...

Up until now, locally milled lumber in Alaska couldn’t be used in residential building projects. That wasn’t because of quality, but because building codes typically require a grade stamp from a ...

Alaska will launch a lumber grading program in an effort to reduce the cost of development in the state following Gov. Mike Dunleavy signature on Senate Bill 87 Wednesday in Big Lake. The bill, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University will sponsor a hardwood log, lumber and tree grading workshop on Wednesday and Thursday (March 23 and 24) at the Purdue Davis Farm in Farmland, Ind. The ...

The mill that contained the twin-blade saw is silent. Craig Kircher, the head rig sawyer at a Hampton Lumber-owned sawmill in Willamina, says “I can run it for you.” He reaches over to press one of ...

WEST ALEXANDER, Pa. (AP) — A complex, noisy network of blades and belts turned logs into dowels before a crowd of excited onlookers Saturday. "I feel like Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory," ...

On the outskirts of Mellen, Wisconsin, just across the Bad River, sits North Country Lumber — a sawmill yard full of neat, lego-brick buildings. Despite the high demand for lumber, Mellen is a small ...

A complex, noisy network of blades and belts turned logs into dowels before a crowd of excited onlookers Saturday. “I feel like Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory,” sawmill manager Patrick Cannin ...