EditorialA sawmill employee, known as an edging catcher, straightens out lumber as it makes its way down the belt at Menominee Tribal Enterprises, the company that oversees the Menominee forest, in Keshena, Wis., Oct. 14, 2022. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialOscar Lopez, a ninth grader who works an overnight shift at a sawmill in nearby South Dakota and sometimes skips school to catch up on sleep, in Worthington, Minn. on Oct. 18, 2022. (Kirsten Luce/The New York Times)
EditorialThe pandemic has slowed sawmill operations, causing a shortage of lumber that has hampered home building in the United States. (Octavio Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialAn abandoned sawmill in an illegal logging yard inside the Amazon rainforest near Portel, Brazil, on Oct. 15, 2019. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)