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 ...

A little piece of Alaska has helped create some of the music industry’s biggest hits. Sitka spruce is a prized “tonewood” used to make guitars and violins. But one guitar company is pushing back and ...

Two major spruces are found in the western forests of the U.S. Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) is found throughout the Rocky Mountains, from Alberta to Arizona. It is named after George Englemann ...

How wood helped fight two wars, and the timber women who also answered the call. How wood helped fight two wars, and the timber women who also answered the call. WWI transformed the Northwest timber ...

Click to open image viewer. This is a block of Sitka spruce, the type of wood used in the nose fairing and nose cap of the U.S. Navy's Poseidon C-3 submarine-launched ballistic missile, deployed from ...

Discovery of pest in UK raises fears for Sitka spruce, which accounts for half of country’s commercial plantations A beetle that has previously devastated Norway spruce populations across continental ...