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 ...

(high level of character-marked wood). Figure 2. Paper birch edge-glue panel (high level of natural stain). Edge-glued panels can be manufactured for a variety of end uses such as furniture and ...

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 ...

AQUATIC RESERVE: Washington launches a management plan to protect habitat while supporting public use in Fidalgo Bay near Anacortes. ALDER LAWSUIT: A Portland jury on Monday ordered Weyerhaeuser to ...

Weyerhaeuser Co. agreed yesterday to pay $34.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the forest-product company manipulated alder wood markets to drive competitors out of business. Weyerhaeuser, ...

A Portland jury on Monday ordered Weyerhaeuser to pay almost $28 million for unlawfully monopolizing the market for finished alder lumber. The award will be tripled under federal antitrust laws. “We ...

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 ...

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 ...