Three thousand years ago, around 1000 B.C., the world’s human population was roughly 50,000,000. In North America, hunter-gatherers still stalked mammoths and giant bison grazing in the lush and untouched nature across North America. In Southeast Alaska, the great coastal forests were largely untouched...

Just west of Portland, Oregon, there’s a sleepy, beach city called Manzanita—the perfect place for a stroll with a friend along sandy, driftwood covered beaches. This is exactly what two area locals were doing one day roughly five years ago, when they discovered a...

“A lot of these roles that we fell into started with the band where we would each have some certain specialties,” says Jeremy Chapman. He’s explaining how he and his brothers, John and Jason, have used their hard-earned road chops to their advantage in...

Isn’t it time you found out for yourself!? Brazilian rosewood. It’s the one. It’s the tonewood people talk about. Even civilians—i.e. those who don’t play guitar—have frequently heard of the mystical, magical wood that seems to hold such sway over those who do pick,...

The long-submerged tale of New Zealand’s Ancient kauri A kauri tree at Mercury Bay, New Zealand, known, due to its extreme age and immensity, as ‘Father of the Forests,’ was struck by lightning in the 1840s, ending its long reign in what was once...