"Music wood" old growth maple, pictured by during an investigation into timber thefts from national forests on the Olympic Peninsula. A separate investigation has resulted in charges against four ...

WINLOCK, WA -- Harold Clause Kupers, owner of J&L Tonewood, a lumber mill producing figured big leaf maple tone wood for the custom guitar industry, was indicted by the Department of Justice for ...

The thieves were allegedly after bigleaf maples, targeting the trees with valuable patterned wood, prosecutors in Washington state said. Tree thieves started forest fire that ravaged 3,300 acres ...

Mike Welches, 63, and two companions were caught cutting bigleaf maple trees on federal lands near the Elwha River. In doing so, prosecutors say the men destroyed "irreplaceable timber" in an area ...

SEATTLE — Two men illegally harvesting big leaf maple trees in Olympic National Forest in 2018 are being indicted on federal charges Monday for starting a fire that burned more than 3,300 acres ...

Pacific Rim Tonewoods hopes to grow as many as 30,000 figured big leaf maples, something the company's owner doesn't believe has ever been done before.

I took a three-hour online course, which explained how to identify trees and collect samples. By this time, Adventure Scientists had finished collecting big-leaf maple samples and were now at work on ...

To the untrained eye, one big-leaf maple looks like the other: tall and gangly, with leaves the size of dinner plates. Loggers usually consider them to be of low value.

Justin Andrew Wilke, 37, and Shawn Edward Williams, 48, were arrested for allegedly poaching big leaf maple trees on U.S. Forest Service land and starting the Maple Fire on Aug. 3, 2018. The fire ...

Additionally, other trees from campus are sometimes used for wood chips around campus, but the big leaf maple is too diseased to use for even that. “It’s very sad but this tree has been really ...

Big leaf maple: Maple is pretty close to the quality of ash and has similar cutting and splitting characteristics. It burns slightly cleaner, sparks a lot more and doesn't heat quite as well.