MINNEAPOLIS -- Pest outbreaks have left Minnesota with quite a lot of dead trees, useless lumber and dried-out and wasted stands, which, if left to rot, will become a large fire hazard. One invasive ...

Add it all up and pest outbreaks have left Minnesota with quite a lot of dead trees, useless lumber and dried-out and wasted stands, which, if left to rot, will become one large fire hazard. But there ...

Those severe winters made me understand why the Algonquins named me “tamarack” which means wood used for snowshoes. People have also used tamarack wood for fence posts, boat building and house frames.

In a typical lumber mill, logs are cut down into pieces of lumber, then sawed and planed into smooth boards for use as flooring or cabinetry. But at Modern Mill in Mississippi, workers don’t fell ...