EditorialA sawmill employee, known as an edging catcher, straightens out lumber as it makes its way down the belt at Menominee Tribal Enterprises, the company that oversees the Menominee forest, in Keshena, Wis., Oct. 14, 2022. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialA sawmill employee, known as an edging catcher, straightens out lumber as it makes its way down the belt at Menominee Tribal Enterprises, the company that oversees the Menominee forest, in Keshena, Wis., Oct. 14, 2022. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialA civilian moves a stack of lumber atop a bicycle in the heavily destroyed village of Oleksandrivka, Ukraine on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialResidents unload donated lumber to be used for rebuilding battle-damaged homes in the village of Oleksandrivka, which was liberated in November as Russian forces retreated from the Kherson region, in Ukraine on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialA deer lingers outside Cascade Medical Center in Cascade, Idaho, on Nov. 20, 2022. This former lumber mill community is home to less than a thousand people, but the hospital serves patients from across 2,800 square miles. (Michael Hanson/The New York Times)
EditorialHerschel Walker, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia, makes remarks at a lumber yard in the tiny town of Wadley, Ga. on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. (Nicole Buchanan/The New York Times)
EditorialHerschel Walker, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia, makes remarks during an appearance at Battle Lumber Company, in Wadley, Ga. on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. (Nicole Buchanan/The New York Times)
EditorialHerschel Walker, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia, makes remarks at a lumber yard in the tiny town of Wadley, Ga. on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. (Nicole Buchanan/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers at a lumber company run by the Lviv Regional Department of Forestry, in Radekhiv, Ukraine, July 29, 2022. (Diego Ibarra Sanchez/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers at Kamps Hardwoods, a Michigan-based manufacturer of kiln-treated lumber used for homes and furniture, in Dutton, Mich., on July 20, 2022. (Sarah Rice/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers at Kamps Hardwoods, a Michigan-based manufacturer of kiln-treated lumber used for homes and furniture, in Dutton, Mich., on July 20, 2022. (Sarah Rice/The New York Times)
EditorialGracious Muteba, the cook on an industrial raft, or "radaeu," belonging to a Chinese company on the Ruki River, east of Mbandaka in the Equator province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, March 16, 2022. (Ashley Gilbertson/The New York Times)
EditorialIsaac Mosley, a student in Waco, Texas, finished his sophomore year remotely. During his junior year, he worked at a lumber company, where he discovered he could still be counted as present if he checked in online. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)
EditorialAs costs for things like lumber, microchips and steel climbed this spring, officials from the Federal Reserve took pains to say the rise would prove “transitory.” (Taylor Glascock/The New York Times)
EditorialConstruction companies are paying more for lumber and hardware, while waiting weeks and sometimes months to receive what they need. (Karen E. Segrave/The New York Times)
EditorialA loader carries freshly cut trees at the Resolute Forest Products lumber mill in El Dorado, Ark., June 17, 2021. (Karen E. Segrave/The New York Times)
EditorialThe pandemic has slowed sawmill operations, causing a shortage of lumber that has hampered home building in the United States. (Octavio Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialTraveler Madeline Pruneau of Denver has her photo taken in front of a sign welcoming visitors to Weed, Calif., on May 11, 2021. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)
EditorialA park ranger plants a sign touting WiFi access at the Lumber River State Park in Orrum, N.C., Oct. 29, 2020. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialDC:Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing examine S.614, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue a final rule relating to removing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of grizzly bears from the Federal list of endanger
EditorialA woman sanitizing handrails at Keim, a lumber mill and home goods business, in Millersburg, Ohio, April 3, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)