Poplar

PUYALLUP, Wash. Vandals apparently mistook raspberry bushes for poplar trees when they broke into a screen house at Washington State University’s Puyallup Research and Extension Center here on the weekend. But James Zuiches, dean of the WSU College of Agriculture and Home Economics, said the research facility they hit is used by Plant Pathologist Peter […]

PULLMAN, Wash. – Family farmer Robert Perkes, Mesa, Wash., and Boise Cascade executives have at least one thing in common. They believe hybrid cottonwood trees have a great future in the Pacific Northwest. Next fall or winter Boise Cascade will harvest, chip and make paper out of 140-acres of trees that Perkes planted in the […]