After a Pope County lumber company was valued at $3 million in a 2007 divorce settlement, a new lawsuit alleges fraud after the company was sold seven years later for 26 times that amount. read more >
Milder winters and warmer summers have meant higher survival rates for the mountain pine beetle, which has triggered an epidemic that began in the 1990s which had killed by 2012 946 million cubic yards of pine trees in British Columbia. More than 45 million acres of forest have been affected. read more >
Canadian firm West Fraser Timber has bought two Arkansas sawmill and lumber manufacturing operations: Travis Lumber Co. of Mansfield and Bibler Brothers Lumber of Russellville. read more >
