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Source: National Geographic THE BUGS THAT EAT PINE TREES One chilly morning in October 2013, Diana Six parked her white Subaru at the edge of a pine forest in southwestern Montana’s Big Hole Valley. Beneath snow-tipped peaks, lodgepole pines in four different colors draped the hillside—a timeline of carnage. The gray ones, now just trunks […]
Source: Daily Mail These black and white photos capture the arduous lives and history of lumberjacks and the logging industry in the 1800s. Lumberjacks back then felled enormous trees using only hand tools and brute strength. Lumberjack style has recently come back in vogue, with city slickers and suburbanites donning the flannel shirts of the […]
Source: Mother Nature Network By: Starre Vartan The numbers are in. In the United States, which contains 8 percent of the world’s forests, there are more trees than there were 100 years ago. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), “Forest growth nationally has exceeded harvest since the 1940s. By 1997, forest growth exceeded harvest […]
Just completed this project with Urban BBQ Company in Linthicum, Maryland. Featured is our Pre-Fab Wood Wall Panels. Looking for great BBQ, cold beer, and great atmosphere; then swing on in.
Source: About.com Forest carbon sequestration is a fanciful term for how much carbon capture there is in a given forest. In other words, what is the carbon storage in a forest? There really is no rule of thumb figure that can describe just how much carbon a forest can capture and store. It depends on […]
Finished up this great remodel with KJN Builders out of Waukesha, WI. The client Nordco was looking to add some warmth with an industrial rustic design to their office space. Featured here is our All Natural Prefab Pallet Wood Panels. Each panel is 4 square feet with no repeating pattern. Installation is quick, clean, and easy; […]
Source: Payson Roundup Wildfires ignite political firestorm centered on faster forest thinning, budget reforms The U.S. Forest Service remains in something approaching bureaucratic and budget meltdown, with wildfires torching the budget and thinning projects languishing. Forest Service officials have appealed to Congress to completely overhaul the wildfire budget, to keep the predictable disaster of each […]
Just completed this beautiful project with Plexus R+D Architectural Interiors out of Atlanta. Featured here is our salvaged beetle kill pine used for accent walls throughout the restaurant Eight Sushi Lounge. If you’re in Atlanta and in the mood for great Sushi with a stunning atmosphere drop on in: Eight Sushi Lounge 930 Howell Mill […]
Source: About.com Trees and lumber are almost entirely made up of carbon. This is a very good thing when it comes to the environment. Trees are one of nature’s most efficient carbon sinks. Lumber is like a carbon Tupperware. The more carbon that is stored in the form of lumber the less CO2 is in […]
The thought rarely crosses most people’s minds as to how lumber is produced. Not only is wood the perfect product for housing and protecting your family, but it’s also Mother Earth’s solution for protecting all of us, think of it as carbon Tupperware! I’ll address this further along with forest carbon sequestration in a future […]
Source: Build Direct Written by Anabelle Bernard Fournier Rustic Industrial Flooring & Decor There’s an interesting trend going around right now, especially in urban areas: matching industrial spaces with rustic decor elements. There sure seems to be a kind of kinship between the two: both remind us of work (factory work, manual labor) and they use […]
Source: Oregon Forest Research Institute Meet the standing dead. Millions of ghosts charred by fire, ravaged by insects, or dead of thirst. These are Oregon’s “zombie” trees. And according to an analysis commissioned by the Oregon Forest Resources Institute, more than 350 million are standing dead in the 14 million acres of Oregon’s national forests. […]
Just got back from LinkedIn Campus in Mountain View, CA for the Mission Main Street Small Business Boot Camp. Had the privilege to meet and hear from Marcus Lemonis from The Profit, Allen Blue co-founder & VP of LinkedIn, Jeff Weiner CEO of LinkedIn, Jennifer Piepszak CEO Business Banking at Chase Bank, and many others. […]
Source: Marketplace.org By: Scott Tong Yet another mining company is going through the process of selling off assets via Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. The company is Patriot Coal out of West Virginia, in bankruptcy court now. But in a twist, one party seeking to scoop up mining assets and liabilities is the head […]
Source: Atlas Obscura BY: DAMARIS COLHOUN When the Elk Complex fire tore past Pine, Idaho, in August of 2013, it was fueled by windy, dry conditions and an abundance of overgrown trees. At one point, it had gained so much momentum that it moved like a giant amoeba, growing and reproducing by throwing out spots of […]