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 -- ...

As utilities race to restore power to millions of customers in the wake of Hurricane Ida, wood pole treaters across the country are working hard to provide wood poles and crossarms needed to restore ...

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 ...

Cox Industries is attaching passive EPC Gen 2 ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tags to wooden utility poles after they are manufactured at its Blackstone, Va., facility, in order to track their location ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 21, 2009) In a federal lawsuit filed in San Francisco earlier this month, the environmental watchdog group Ecological Rights Foundation (ERF) claims that dioxin is being ...