Women in Wood for the Greater Good: An Inspiring Sustainable Forestry Initiative Project
Here’s a cool project happening across the border in Canada that we hope will catch on here, too: the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has…
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The Minnesota Man Who Planted 3.5 Million Eastern White Pine Trees
Referred to as a ‘legendary lumberman’ in a recent profile on his family, Jack Rajala planted 3.5 million eastern white pine trees in Minnesota…
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Incredibly Intricate Carvings Elevate Plywood as a Fine Art Material
Most of us don’t associate plywood with fine art, but an Oakland-based sculptor named Gabriel Schama is changing that with layered laser-cut creations of…
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This Week in Wood: Conserving Working Forests Supports Rural Families
As we recently reported, the more the public demands wood and other forest products, the more our forests grow – and, as it turns…
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Rising Demand for Wood Leads to Forest Growth, According to New Report
As appetite for lumber, paper, packaging, wood pellets and other forest products has grown, so have the nation’s forests, according to a new report….
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Life-Sized Canoe Sculpture Made of a Solid Block of Eastern White Pine
Sculptor Paul Stark is busy at work carving a life-sized canoe and its human inhabitants out of a trunk of Eastern White Pine. Buzzing…
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