With so many varieties sold as Christmas trees, knowing what differentiates a Douglas fir from a Norway spruce is key to ...
The Madison’s Lumber Prices Index decreased 2% to $435 per thousand board feet for the week ending December 05, 2025. This ...
The true firs, called true firs to distinguish the wood from Douglas-fir, consist of more than 40 species in North America, but only seven species produce commercial lumber. In eastern North America, ...
The Madison’s Lumber Prices Index decreased to $443 per thousand board feet for the week ending November 28, 2025. This marks ...
The U.S. Forest Service has made forest thinning one of its top priorities, particularly in fire-prone and unhealthy dry forests. But environmental groups say dense Douglas fir plantations on the wet ...
Green Diamond Resource Company officials announced on Wednesday that its subsidiary is getting out of the redwood lumber business, transitioning to Douglas fir lumber by year’s end. The shift will ...
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include input from Trinity River Lumber Company Vice President Dee Sanders. After being closed more than one year with a loss of over 100 local jobs, ...
WHEN the immortal frigate Constitution first put to sea in the year 1798, she carried as masts three lofty White Pines felled in Maine. Put when in 1925 these had to be removed, there was left no ...