What’s the most sustainable wood for my new deck?

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By Ask Umbra®May 18, 2015, 5:10 am22 pts
Q. Could you look into wood for building decks? I don’t want to buy wood from the over-harvested Pacific Northwest or the global south. Is yellow pine from the southeast United States any good, or is it a horrible monoculture that’s genetically engineered and ruins the soil? And then there’s the whole…

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