Every year, between 150 and 200 Sitka spruce logs cut from Southeast Alaska forests are barged south to a small company in Concrete, Wash., where they begin their transformation into acoustic guitars ...

(light music) (bright music) - Twice in the 20th century, a Northwest wood came to the rescue in wartime. At the same time, the cutting of that wood triggered advances that both changed how loggers ...

SEASIDE, Ore. – The nation’s tallest Sitka spruce could be on its last limbs. Last week’s strong winds knocked a section of rotted wood from the trunk of the 204-foot tree southeast of Seaside, and ...

Big-name acoustic guitarists in the 1960s were likely using instruments with wood sourced from Hoquiam’s Posey Manufacturing Co., an Australian professor recently discovered. Professor Chris Gibson ...

A little piece of Alaska has helped create some of the music industry’s biggest hits. Sitka spruce is a prized “tonewood” used to make guitars and violins. But one guitar company is pushing back and ...

Gen. Brice Disque (1879-1960) began his career in the Philippines and rose through the enlisted ranks to captain before leaving the Army. He arrived in Portland in the fall of 1917 to lead the Spruce ...

News of the toppling of Oregon's largest living thing -- the huge Sitka spruce near Seaside -- was barely a day old when the requests started to roll in. "I got an e-mail from a guy in New York asking ...