Old-growth lumber used in homes built before 1960 came from trees that were 100–200 years old, producing denser, tighter-grained wood than modern plantation timber. Modern dimensional lumber is ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order and a memorandum on March 1 aimed at boosting the U.S. lumber industry, addressing what White House officials called a crisis in both supply and demand ...

On March 1, 2025, President Trump issued a pair of Executive Orders aimed at promoting domestic production of wood products. First, he announced the initiation of an investigation under Section 232 of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Inter Mountain logging contractor harvests a tree during a forest harvesting project in Walden, Colorado on April 7, 2009. File ...

President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an order aimed at increasing U.S. timber production and launched an investigation into the risks that foreign lumber imports pose to national security. Turn ...

Section 1. Purpose. The production of timber, lumber, paper, bioenergy, and other wood products (timber production) is critical to our Nation’s well-being. Timber production is essential for crucial ...