The New Jersey Forest Service is about halfway through a 10-year plan to restore the state’s Atlantic white cedar forest. Cedar forests are native to the East Coast, but New Jersey is considered ...

Experience the intense and dangerous side of woodworking as a cedar log loaded with hidden nails wreaks havoc on lathe blades. This video takes you through a high-stakes woodturning session ...

The White House has declared that the annual Easter ... This Old House is going to get a composite siding makeover this year. The PBS home renovation staple, now in its 46th season, will use ...

Westlake Royal Building Products ™ (“Westlake Royal”), a Westlake company (NYSE: WLK), has expanded its Cedar Renditions ™ aluminum siding line with five new solid colors in the U.S ...

We never found the lichen, but we did visit a number of Atlantic white cedar swamps during this search, the most memorable being one near Mount Agamenticus. It was early spring, and there was ...

Northern white cedar is also commonly used for siding. It’s durable and attractive and naturally resistant to decay and insects. Northern white cedar siding is also more affordable, averaging $3 ...

Cedar siding can be derived from the less expensive white woodgrain section or from the more expensive, dense heartwood section. If left unstained, cedar weathers to a silvery-gray color.

Northern white-cedar is a slow growing native North American boreal tree with the scientific name Thuja occidentalis. Arborvitae is another name for the tree in its cultivated and commercially ...

The team carbon-dated the log and found that the Eastern red cedar wasn’t just old—at approximately 3,775 years old, it was ancient. Further testing revealed that it had lost less than 5 ...