How many wood poles do woodpeckers peck, since woodpeckers do peck poles? In a typical midsize city, roughly 1,000 telephone poles have to be replaced every year because birds -- and then rain -- ...

RISON — The depressed U.S. housing market has stunted demand for most wood products, but wood-utility-pole makers have escaped most of the recession's effects thus far. Treated Materials Co., which ...

As utilities race to restore power to millions of customers in the wake of Hurricane Ida, wood pole treaters across the country are working hard to provide wood poles and crossarms needed to restore ...

There’s a reason Rodgers and Hammerstein never wrote about wooden utility poles. Every August from the Gulf Coast to the Garden State, T-shaped timbers and the wires they bear are strewn about like ...

As an East County resident, I am glad to see SDG&E taking steps to improve safety (“Power plan moves forward,” Oct. 24) by taking the steps needed to replace the wooden transmission poles in Cleveland ...