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Building Tomorrow’s Architects: Why Student Design Competitions Matter for the Lumber Industry

The lumber industry has long supplied the raw material for civilization — framing homes, shaping skylines, furnishing interiors. But raw material alone doesn’t drive innovation. ...
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Architecture

Board & Batten Siding — Eastern White Pine Manufacturers Should Be Paying Attention

For a siding style rooted in practicality — wide boards nailed to barn frames, with narrow strips sealing the gaps against a New England winter ...
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Architecture

A 1917 White Pine monograph has 2.4K reads — nearly triple our next most popular issue.

Over a century ago, a group of architects gathered at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, to judge a design competition for ...
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Architecture

The White Pine Monographs: 110 Years of the Lumber Industry’s Smartest Marketing Move

In 1915, the White Pine Bureau did something most industries wouldn’t think to do for another century: they hired a respected architectural editor, put serious ...
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Builders & architects - Grade Sheets

The Lowercase “s” That Changed Everything: What NH’s Bill 529: means for NELMA members

New Hampshire Takes a Stand for American Lumber A new Senate bill is putting SPFs on the specification sheet. Here’s what the grading debate is ...
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Architecture

An Evolution and Elevation of The Classic Cabin

Close your eyes. Picture a cabin in the woods. There’s a version of that cabin that lives in everyone’s imagination — raw-hewn logs, a stone ...
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Change Your Life with a Career in the Lumber Industry

Get a life-changing new career in lumber, forestry or woodworking! Many ...

From the Woodshed: Building Tips, Candid Conversations & More with Maine Cabin Masters

If you’re not listening to this podcast, you’re missing out. The ...

Sculptform Showroom in Melbourne Shows Off Innovative Timber Cladding System

Wood is one of humanity’s oldest building materials, with a reputation ...

Michigan Names an Eastern White Pine on the Upper Peninsula its Tallest Tree

The search for Michigan’s tallest tree has found its victor: a ...

A Dramatic Tale of Timber Poaching in Washington State

Muffled chainsaws, tree DNA and Carlos Santana – this fascinating story ...

Hunting for the Biggest Eastern White Pine Trees in Massachusetts

To find some of the most majestic Eastern White Pine trees ...