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- December 2006, Buying Local to Keep the View from The Amherst Bulletin
- February 2005, Wood Firm In Documentary from The Republican
- September 2004, Cutting to the chase from Business West
- January 2003, Amherst mural tells the town history from Daily Hampshire Gazette
- June 2002, Board Meeting: Ninth Generation Leads Historic Amherst Lumber Company from Business West
- June 2002, Board Meeting from Business West
- August 17, 2009, Watch Cowls in a National Science Foundation video profiling the excellent research UMass is doing in an effort to make clean biofuel out of forest biomass.
- July 17, 2009, Biomass: Will it help or hurt? by Chris Russell, Amherst Bulletin Contributing Writer
- April 21, 2009, It's Time To Get Serious About Feasibility Of Biomass by Cinda Jones and Elisa Campbell from Daily Hampshire Gazette
- December 2007, UMass tests Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Cure on Cowls Land
- October 2007, Cinda Jones Receives 2007 Award for Outstanding Achievements in Sustainable Forestry from BASF
- October 2007, National Conservation Award Presented To Massachusetts Sustainable Timberland Management Company from The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agency
- January 2007, American Woodcock Initiative from Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
- February 2006, Housing Within Reach: Innovations in Affordable Housing Design
- August 2002, Trail advocates take diverse paths from Sunday Republican
- September 1952, Cowls company model lumber firm operating forests scientifically from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
- February, 2006, Before revolution, Cowls was turning, N. Amherst company led by 8th, 9th generations from Daily Hampshire Gazette
- February, 2006, Company spurs lower-cost house project from Daily Hampshire Gazette
- May, 1981, North Amherst Lumber Yard Grows Up
- December, 2009 Changing With The Times from Amherst Bulletin (pdf file)
- January 23, 2009 Cowls said 12th oldest family firm in America from Amherst Bulletin, by Nick Grabbe (pdf file)
- December 2005-January 2006 "Award Winning Cowls Lumber" from Hardwood Matters, the magazine of The National Hardwood Lumber Association.
- September 2004, Mill Tour Excites Retail Business from Do-It-Yourself
- June 2004, Busy Sawmill Welcomes Visitors from The Republican
- October 2004, Yankee Knowhow from Timber Processing
- December 2004, Wooden Performances from Timber Homes
- October 2002, Up from the ashes from The Lumber Co-operator (Retail Member Profile)
- July 2002, W.D. Cowls plans to rebuild after fire from Amherst Bulletin
- July 2002, Fire razes Amherst sawmill from Union News
- July 2002, Blaze destorys sawmill from Daily Gazette