The Four Corners Wood Products sawmill, a partnership between private business, the community and the federal government, is up and running in Eager, AZ.
The Pennsylvania Dutch culture, and the artifacts that they left us, tell the story of fine woodworkers and artisans, who prize simple beauty in combination with functionality perhaps as much as any culture that ever existed on the face of the earth.
Using Black Locust wood to construct a deck was a positive experience for a Pennsylvania couple because of its green qualities and its weather-resistant properties.
In 2008, Carol Chang started on her degree in Wood Science at Penn State at our Mont Alto campus and now, with graduation in sight, she is about to embark on the next phase - a career in woodworking.
Mr. Huskey illustrates the mathematical equation that defines the number of possible configurations of the Phoebe Table with graphics. No back of the envelope calculation, this.
When it comes to unusual, and creative, uses of wood, you have to hand it to the Finns. It seems that their culture causes their mental juices to flow naturally to wood as a first solution for just about everything you can think of...and some that you never would. Such as a chapel of... silence.
Time magazine chose the "Great Housing Rebound of 2012" but I vote for the rising support for "forest restoration" and specifically, the story of the Four Forest Restoration Initiative in northern Arizona.