Author: rpalma
Introducing our Stonewash rustic gray hardwood floors! The newest color in our Rustic Collection family of Fir flooring. Our Rustic Collection accentuates weathered grain patterns, nail holes, and organic characteristics. Our 7-step finishing process includes hand-rubbed penetrating oils and a durable low/no VOC protective finish coat. Stone washing is a proprietary process that transforms our […]
Source: National Geographic THE BUGS THAT EAT PINE TREES One chilly morning in October 2013, Diana Six parked her white Subaru at the edge of a pine forest in southwestern Montana’s Big Hole Valley. Beneath snow-tipped peaks, lodgepole pines in four different colors draped the hillside—a timeline of carnage. The gray ones, now just trunks […]
Source: Daily Mail These black and white photos capture the arduous lives and history of lumberjacks and the logging industry in the 1800s. Lumberjacks back then felled enormous trees using only hand tools and brute strength. Lumberjack style has recently come back in vogue, with city slickers and suburbanites donning the flannel shirts of the […]
Source: Mother Nature Network By: Starre Vartan The numbers are in. In the United States, which contains 8 percent of the world’s forests, there are more trees than there were 100 years ago. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), “Forest growth nationally has exceeded harvest since the 1940s. By 1997, forest growth exceeded harvest […]