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Source: About.com WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY & SELECTIVE HARVESTING Smart Loggers maintain sustainable forests by practicing selective logging and sustainable wood harvesting. Timber is a renewable resource, this fact makes forest timber products one of the greenest materials available. Why not go one step further and harvest timber in such a way that is conducive […]
Trees are our breathing partners. You may not live in a forest, but you need trees in order to live. People and animals depend on trees and plants for oxygen. As you breathe in, your body uses oxygen. As you breathe out, it gives off carbon dioxide. Trees do just the opposite. They take in […]
Spotlight: Vintage Collection Douglas Fir Flooring Unlike other “hand scraped” flooring on the market, ours is actually scraped by hand with no power tools. Every floor is custom made per order, typical lead times are approx 4 weeks. Specs: SPECIES – Salvaged and certified Montana Douglas Fir MOISTURE CONTENT – Cured & kiln dried to 6-8% […]
The Mountain Pine Beetle has decimated millions of acres of Pine trees in Western North America. As these trees stand dead in the forest they start to dry out, rot, crack, and split. Salvaging and producing long lengths, wide dimensions, and large timbers used to be a commonality, however as these trees continue to degrade […]
Source: Treesource California Governor Jerry Brown vowed last week to step up efforts to make forests more resilient to drought and wildfire by allocating more dollars toward thinning projects and prescribed burns. Brown said he will carve out $96 million as part of his revised budget proposal, which was unveiled Friday. The money will come […]