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What happens to a company town when that company is sold? The community of Nahma in Delta County faced this dilemma in the 1950s. The owners of the Bay de [...]

George Powers, a clerk in lumberman Jonathan Boyce's office in Essexville, Michigan, tore the end off the envelope and shook the letter out. Another letter from Archie Boyce, the boss's […]

FROM MODEST beginnings as a family-owned indigenous sawmill at National Park, Taranaki Sawmills has grown to become a major remanufacturer and exporter. Over 20 years the Jones family built a [...]

TODAY THE operation, MJ Fraser Logging, has grown to consist of three highly mechanised ground-based crews, a full stem-based crew, and a hauler crew in which Fraser has a half [...]

A steam locomotive barrels toward you. Native Canadian fisherman spears a salmon. A team of oxen hauls timber to the lumber mill. Stand on the sidewalk and history plays out […]

If you were to mention 'old-growth'to a Pacific Northwest logger around the turn of the century, he might have assumed you were referring to the luxuriant mustache that was a [...]

The sons of hardscrabble immigrants, Matt, Tim and Mike Riordan were an unlikely trio to become timber barons. Matt learned mining on the job in Nevada and Arizona, Tim ran [...]

WHEN TOIVO Kajavala completed his forestry degree at a Finnish university in 1949 and emigrated to Paraguay a few years later, he would have had little hint as to how [...]

David Bowden of Goodlettsville, Tenn., likes to build things out of wood and he loves local history - and that's what led him to become the owner of a 1920 [...]

Throughout the state's history, Pennsylvania's forests have played an important economic role. Pennsylvania, Penns Woods: the combination of the English Title holder, William Penn, and the Latin word for wood, [...]

A venerable dimension makers marks a century of progress. Although Gamble Brothers of Louisville, Ky., is celebrating its centennial year, which makes the company a Methuselah of wood-dimension craftspeople, someone [...]

In the United States today, southern pine and Douglas-fir plantations comprise over 20 percent of the privately owned softwood-containing timberlands and this area is expected to double over the next [...]

Sixty Years of Experience, Integrity and Growth Reflect Core Values As we approach the close of the 20th Century we pause to reflect on days gone by, Days of 'Old [...]

Celebrating 50 Years of Vision and Innovation Nelson Lumber has come a long way since 1949. From an upstart lumber yard in Lloydminster, Alberta, the company has grown into a [...]

On 1875 the Comstock Lode was still pouring out its riches in Virginia City, Nevada. Timber was a precious commodity for the mines and the only source was the Sierra [...]

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, specified 'no tropical hardwoods' for a new extension. Project architect Jonathan Freegard advised the College committee not to use wood from 'dubious sources'. The College initially wanted [...]

It never came easy for Simpson dynasty founder Sol G. Simpson, a wiry five-foot-nine Canadian with a big bushy mustache, was unlike many of the thousands of other ambitious man [...]

From 1910 to 1932, the Winnipeg edition of the T. Eaton catalogue listed houses that could be purchased as a complete package. The lumber was shipped by railcar direct from […]

It is said there are three kinds of companies in the world: those that make things happen, those that watch things happen, and those that wonder what's happened. With over [...]

Prentice Bloedel gave up a planned career as a teacher to guide his family's far-flung timber empire and became the leader of the industry's forest-conservation efforts. He eventually guided the [...]

The pine tree often is referred to as the gold of south Arkansas. The dense forests that dominate the Gulf Coastal Plain also dominate the region's economy. Towns in Ashley, [...]

Optimism for the fibre box industry In the feature section of this issue, you will find an article on the 50th anniversary of the Fibre Box Association. FBA president Bruce [...]