SALEM — The Oregon Senate on Monday, April 28, passed a bill to establish a pilot lumber-grading training program. “This bill opens the door for small sawmill operators to participate in local housing ...

FRANKSTOWN – Robert Pittman had a choice. “I could either stay here or move down south,” said Pittman, 48, an Everett native. He had been a lumber inspector for 28 years. He would buy lumber from ...

News-Miner opinion: The Alaska Senate Finance Committee is considering Senate Bill 87 to determine if locally produced sawmill lumber can make the grade. Alaska Senate Bill 87 went to the Senate ...

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 ...

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 ...

CLINTON, Iowa (KWQC) - Clinton was once known as the lumber capital of the world, and the Sawmill Museum on the banks of the Mississippi River keeps that history alive for visitors. Museum director ...

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 ...