and it’s just depressing to see so much of this wood,” he says. “I thought about how I could use it in a meaningful way.” Though once considered waste, “blue-stain pine” is now in ...

This home's open staircase is a rustic lodge design made from thick slabs of edged-grained logs that reveal the bugs' bore holes as well as their march across its growth rings. In ...

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It doesn't only affect oaks. Pine trees sometimes succumb to blue stain fungus. There are some species that kind of, grow on dead wood and some that grow on living wood. In the case of living wood ...

“That blue stain, it will be a relic at some point,” said Sitton, who bought the Aspen Wall Wood mill in 2016. The march of mountain pine beetles through Colorado’s forests changed the compo ...

The mountain pine beetle (MPB), and the blue-stain fungus is another excellent example of symbiosis. The blue stain fungus travels from tree to tree on a special structure in the beetle’s ...

Most lumber manufacturers wouldn't know how to grade blue-stain pine and might simply reject it as unsaleable. But Mater Engineering has made a specialty out of finding new markets for wood ...

Yates prices the wood slightly less than a similar hemlock product, and it helps that Colorado has exempted Rocky Mountain Blue Stain Pine – the brand name – from state sales tax. Perry Cadman ...