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.

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re planning to build a wooden deck this summer, you may have noticed that choosing a decking material has become much more difficult than ever before. Just a few years ago the only option was ...

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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