RISON — The depressed U.S. housing market has stunted demand for most wood products, but wood-utility-pole makers have escaped most of the recession's effects thus far. Treated Materials Co., which ...

How many wood poles do woodpeckers peck, since woodpeckers do peck poles? In a typical midsize city, roughly 1,000 telephone poles have to be replaced every year because birds -- and then rain -- ...

Wildfires always have been a part of our environment. For a variety of reasons, in recent years wildfires have been growing in both frequency and intensity, dramatically increasing the level of ...

There’s a reason Rodgers and Hammerstein never wrote about wooden utility poles. Every August from the Gulf Coast to the Garden State, T-shaped timbers and the wires they bear are strewn about like ...

As an East County resident, I am glad to see SDG&E taking steps to improve safety (“Power plan moves forward,” Oct. 24) by taking the steps needed to replace the wooden transmission poles in Cleveland ...