ARVADA, Colo. - Thousands of ornaments, many of them made by Colorado schoolchildren, have accompanied the majestic Engelmann spruce sent to Washington, D.C., to grace the lawn of the U.S. Capitol ...

David Lapeyrouse has an ear tuned to the ring of a good piece of cedar, or a well-graded sheet of spruce. He runs Timbre Tonewood in Abbotsford, B.C., a mill and wholesale wood business that ...