EVERETT – Back in the 1960s, Fred Buse decided to take a gamble on an emerging new market for lumber cut from alder trees. People must have looked at him funny. The prevailing wisdom in the Northwest ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The home-improvement and design shows make it look easy: Take a simple sheet of inexpensive plywood and, presto! In a few minutes, you’ve got a table, a ...

Red alder (Alnus rubra), once considered a trash species and useful only for fuel, grows abundantly in the Pacific Coast regions of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. It produces excellent ...

The home-improvement and design shows make it look easy: Take a simple sheet of inexpensive plywood and presto! In a few minutes, you’ve got a table, a cabinet or a lounge chair. It’s not that fast or ...

The home-improvement and design shows make it look easy: Take a simple sheet of inexpensive plywood and presto! In a few minutes, you've got a table, a cabinet or a lounge chair. It's not that fast or ...

Weyerhaeuser Co. said it agreed to pay $14 million to settle claims it monopolized the market for alder saw log, a wood used to make furniture, flooring and finished lumber. The claims, made in a suit ...

The home-improvement and design shows make it look easy: Take a simple sheet of inexpensive plywood and presto! In a few minutes, you’ve got a table, a cabinet or a lounge chair. It’s not that fast or ...

This undated publicity product photo, a Bespoke chair, crafted in part from white oak plywood, and featured in "PlyDesign," by Philip Schmidt, is shown. Plywood is versatile, inexpensive and easy to ...

MYRTLE POINT — A local alder mill is growing despite a recession that is hammering the lumber industry. W&L Lumber, formerly known as W&L Contractors, has added a lumber-drying kiln and a planer to ...