Prosecutors allege that the two men had been illegally harvesting and selling high-value bigleaf maple wood for several months before the fire broke out in August 2018. Some of the deciduous trees ...

In a town best known for its long-gone concrete plant, some music lovers are hoping to make Concrete better known for something much softer: wood. More specifically, residents hope big leaf maple ...

burning 3,300 acres and taking down dozens of bigleaf maple trees, a species prized for its wood, which is used to make high-end acoustic guitars. Local officials became suspicious that the ...

The wood purchased by Kupers, owner of J&L Tonewoods in Winlock, WA, was bigleaf maple stolen from Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington state, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ).

The theft was one of many tree thefts in Washington state since demand for the shimmering, curly-grain pattern found in some bigleaf maple wood skyrocketed about 15 years ago. The patterned wood ...

Pacific Northwest farmers are now tapping the bigleaf maple, often denigrated as a trash ... the flavors as dark with notes of coffee, earth, wood, molasses and brine. Farmers like Dan Caldwell ...

The company deals with four local species of trees exclusively, red cedar, engelmann spruce, sitka spruce and big leaf maple. "Every piece of wood is unique. They're like snowflakes," Lapeyrouse ...