Red alder (Alnus rubra), once considered a trash species and useful only for fuel, grows abundantly in the Pacific Coast regions of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. It produces excellent ...

Alder, also known as red alder and Western alder, is one of the most common of the Pacific Coast commercial timbers. But unlike many of the other important timber trees of the Northwest, alder is a ...

Weyerhaeuser Co. agreed yesterday to pay $34.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the forest-product company manipulated alder wood markets to drive competitors out of business. Weyerhaeuser, ...

A Portland jury on Monday ordered Weyerhaeuser to pay almost $28 million for unlawfully monopolizing the market for finished alder lumber. The award will be tripled under federal antitrust laws. “We ...

EVERETT – Back in the 1960s, Fred Buse decided to take a gamble on an emerging new market for lumber cut from alder trees. People must have looked at him funny. The prevailing wisdom in the Northwest ...

Weyerhaeuser Co. said it agreed to pay $14 million to settle claims it monopolized the market for alder saw log, a wood used to make furniture, flooring and finished lumber. The claims, made in a suit ...

The owners of five alder mills have filed two new lawsuits against Weyerhaeuser Co. of Federal Way, alleging the forest products company illegally monopolized the alder industry. The suits seek, among ...

MYRTLE POINT — A local alder mill is growing despite a recession that is hammering the lumber industry. W&L Lumber, formerly known as W&L Contractors, has added a lumber-drying kiln and a planer to ...