I speak from experience when I say that it's actually fun to go into the woods, saw up fallen trees, then bring the wood home to burn over the winter. What isn't so much fun is subsequently sawing the ...

Every year, between 150 and 200 Sitka spruce logs cut from Southeast Alaska forests are barged south to a small company in Concrete, Wash., where they begin their transformation into acoustic guitars ...

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Upon entering a custom-carved spruce log home, striking architecture and interior design features await. Piles of huge, chiseled Engelmann white spruce trees make up the towering two-story walls in ...