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 ...

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 ...