Before oil and gas, Louisiana's first industrial boom belonged to the logging industry. With the help of backwoods swampers ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) –Three suspects have been arrested for stealing thousands of cypress logs in Franklin Parish. A joint investigation with the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry ...

As Europe was submerged in the Dark Ages, a sprout was pushing up in a faraway swamp. It grew into an enormous tree that eventually starred on television before making its way to a lumber yard in ...

(Columbia-AP) Sept. 5, 2004 - A group of Pee Dee entrepreneurs brag they have the oldest workable wood in the world. They hope the ancient cypress logs discovered in a sand mine near Johnsonville will ...

Step through the solid hemlock front door and you'll see that the main room of this log home in Boggstown isn't great in name only. Twenty-three-foot ceilings. Cypress log walls. A hulking stone ...

NAVASSA - More than 1,200 years ago, the cypress tree took root on the banks of the Cape Fear River. It grew for centuries. By the time loggers discovered it in the 18th or 19th century, its trunk had ...

PINELLAS PARK — Julie Pauley is used to hearing that annoying buzzing, and squeaky shrill of the sawmill from her house nearby. But now that the sawdust has settled at Axley Bros. Sawmill after 50 ...

"Hinoki" cypress from Ise Shrine in Mie Prefecture will be used to rebuild Shinto shrines damaged during the deadly March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, whose monster tsunami devastated the Tohoku ...

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come. - Karen Joy Fowler Author Karen Joy Fowler has it right. When it comes to "immortal" trees in Illinois and the Eastern U.S., none have ...