(Photo: Michael Appleton/New York Times)In the dec...  ..., virgin longleaf pine was regarded as the finest lumber available. So the ancient forests of the South we...  ...Century New York City.In 1938, the Great Southern Lumber Company sold its last log of longleaf pine. The U...  ...years,” Alan Solomon,...

Photo: MSCUA, University of Washington L...  ...rew in the Pacific Northwest showed how lumberjacks sat on top of precariously stacked logs. It'd tak...  ...nce bustling logging town that provided lumber for everything from clipper ships to fu...

Photo: Geoffrey CottenceauWhen a sawmill did that...  ...tenceauWhen a sawmill did that to timber, you get lumber . But what happens when an artist made the object...

Forget chainsaws - if you have to clear a jungle in a jiffy, reach for the 4-1/2 ton bowling ball. From a 1953 edition of Mechanics Today:SCORES of times every day in an area near Hungry Horse, Montana, a man-made hurric...