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Updated on 1/11/2023 The Biology Behind What Causes Blue Stain In Pine Many wonder what blue stain pine is and what causes it. To fully understand what gives our Beetle Kill Pine flooring and blue pine wall paneling their color, we need to look into the biological concept of symbiosis. The term symbiosis comes from […]
Customer in Boulder, CO just sent us these pictures. They actually drove to Montana picked up the flooring, installed it, and did a site finish. Now that’s customer service! Their client commented numerous times about the extreme variations in color tones and how they have never seen beetle kill blue pine with so much color […]
Source: Pique You can’t miss it because the devastation runs as far as the eye can see. Driving between Merritt and Kelowna on Highway 97C in British Columbia’s southern interior, it is possible to feel a kind of terrible awe while passing mile after mile of rusty-coloured, dead pine forests. It is the work of […]
After doing this for so long we sometimes forget to answer the most common questions. A common question we get is, “So, what exactly is standing timber?” Dead-standing trees refer to trees that have been killed in the forest by a naturally occurring event. The majority of dead-standing trees in Montana are a result of […]
Most of our customers know we live in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. What many don’t know is that a small little beetle (Mountain Pine Beetle) about the size of a grain of rice has killed millions of acres across Montana, the Western U.S., and Canada. So what happens to these trees? After the […]