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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: I’m planning to build a new deck and really love the look and feel of real wood. All the composite decking materials try to mimic wood, so there must be a reason for that. I’m considering redwood ...

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 ...