Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Angel City Lumber says it will likely be able to produce enough low-cost, millwork-grade board for 500 rebuilt homes—and provide ...

To stop California’s 6 million urban trees from knocking out power lines, crashing through houses, or lying across streets when they die, humans have to intervene. This week, a handful of arborists ...

We all know lumber comes from trees, but trees were not designed for lumber. Man has to take something that naturally grows in a cylindrical shape, dry it out and make it rectangular. It’s a peculiar ...

Beyond huge piles of concrete and asphalt debris at a site being cleared for development in Wauconda, a two-man crew has begun repurposing parts of the landscape that have been lost. Included is the ...

SEATTLE — When a tree falls in the city, does it make a table? Or a guitar or a cabinet? “Ten to 15 years ago, nobody knew what urban wood was,” said Paul Hickman, founder and CEO of Urban Ashes, a ...

If you have a couple of cedar trees in your yard that need to come down, why let them go to waste once they're out of the ground? Instead, you can easily transform these simple logs into quality ...

MOULTRIE, Ga. (WALB) -Wood-Mizer brought portable band saws to the expo to demonstrate how to take logs and turn them into lumber. Their exhibit shows a variety of equipment from the consumer to the ...

A Boyle Heights lumberyard is working to repurpose the wood from trees left damaged by the Eaton Fire, turning them into lumber and products for residents looking to rebuild after the devastating wild ...

TORNADOES, HELL AND FLASH FLOODING AND WHEN TREES FALL DOWN IN THE METRO, THE MAJORITY GO TO THE DEBRIS DROP-OFF SITES. BUT A SELECT FEW HAVE A FUTURE IN, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, FURNITURE CAME. IT’S NICE.

If we can make square tomatoes, why not square trees that are ready to chop into lumber? That’s why the concept designers at Draw Me a Sheep have created this “square tree” sculpture – to suggest a ...