(BPT) - If current design trends are any indication, wood siding is back. Design professionals are recommending one species in particular: cypress. What’s behind this revival of cypress siding? “Good ...

A. Normally, logs from cypress trees will float in water when they are harvested. Sometimes, however, they have a bacterial infection in the living tree that increases the water content so that the ...

(BPT) - Known for its honey-like hues and ability to withstand the elements, cypress is fast becoming the go-to-product for siding and a host of other outdoor applications. There's no denying it - ...

Q. What can you tell me about “sinker” cypress versus regular cypress? A. Normally, logs from cypress trees will float in water when they are harvested. Sometimes, however, they have a bacterial ...

There are a great number of business tycoons interred at Cypress Lawn in Colma, including silver king James C. Flood, San Francisco media mogul Charles de Young, who co-founded the San Francisco ...

Years ago, the Cypress King mill at Bowie, in Lafourche Parish, operated at the edge of the swamp close to the present route of U.S. 90, between Raceland and Des Allemands. Contemporary descriptions ...

Penn State University researchers claim that consumers buying bags of cypress mulch might not be getting what they think. Using a new method of analyzing wood, the researchers found that bags of ...

Bald cypress trees once covered more than a million of acres of Louisiana before the logging boom, which nearly eliminated all of the old-growth cypress. Cypress logging for commercial markets grew to ...