How One Sawmill Explains the Skyrocketing Price of Wood
How One Sawmill Explains the Skyrocketing Price of Wood Slate 1 day ago © Provided by Slate White gold. Henry Grabar The late-pandemic supply-chain crisis never smelled quite as good as it did on Wednesday morning in Searsmont, Maine. The air on the 80-acre campus of Robbins Lumber was thick with the scent of Eastern White Pine—the tallest trees in the Maine forest—being sliced into boards. Yet the warehouse, a cavernous hangar designed to stores pallets of finished lumber for shipment, was virtually empty. The company cannot keep wood on the shelves. “Traditionally, these tiers ar...
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