Builders FirstSource (BFS) has announced the acquisition of Truckee Tahoe Lumber Company (TTL), a family-owned business that has served the Northern Sierra-Nevada region since 1931. Details of the ...

This is the so-called Lost Sierra, the swath of mountains, rivers and forest north of Truckee and Lake Tahoe ... A century ago, this town was a lumber mill, run by a man named Arthur Davies.

Truckee is rich in history ... as the 1866 site of the first lumber mill, the 1867 construction of the Central Pacific railroad over the mountains, and the first ice harvesting in the Basin ...