The Headwaters Fund board approved a grant for a project aimed at convincing California residents to choose redwood over wood-plastic composite lumber when building decks. Six members of the fund ...

Humboldt County residents can expect to start seeing advertisements promoting the use of redwood over other building materials thanks to a marketing program that will utilize a Headwaters Fund grant.

A new chronicle of redwood logging exposes how a cadre of wealthy industrialists reaped a fortune in the name of environmentalism. If handled poorly, a history of the so-called Redwood Wars—especially ...

2001-05-13 04:00:00 PDT Scotia, Humboldt County-- After more than 90 years of turning ancient redwoods into lumber, the largest old-growth sawmill in the world has shut down, a casualty of ...

Around 1850, men with axes began cutting down California’s redwoods, the first step in a process that turned the giant trees into houses, railroad ties, cigar boxes and other products. As James ...

The redwood lumber heaped high in woodcarver Richard Malacek’s Wheaton workshop started life more than a thousand years ago in California coastal forests. In the early decades of this century, the ...

GUALALA (KCBS/AP) -- Cal Fire has approved a timber harvest plan that involves logging century-old redwood trees along the Sonoma County coast despite the objections of environmental advocates. The ...

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