Forest, the owner of the lumber mill Lantero worked with, made it his business to find uses for beetle kill pine. He introduced Lantero to a logger who knew how to get the wood. "The logger helped ...

and he dries the wood slowly in a large kiln that’s fueled by scrap beetle kill. The stain “kicks the wood into a lower grade,” says Palma, “so sawmills don’t want it.” But a luxury ...

Not unique to only these two segments, beetle-kill trees line large swaths of forest ... Huge amounts of dead wood lay on the ground surrounded by foliage, twigs, and branches that easily catch ...