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Ethically Sourced Timber

Our wood is primarily sourced from sustainably managed forests—forests that will last. In doing so, we help create an economy that will last, providing foresters, millwrights, craftsmen, and retailers with meaningful jobs in service of their community and their environment.

We also work directly with landowners interested in clearing old hardwood that have reached the end of their life cycle and are beginning to die. Felling these trees in a responsible manner has a much lower impact on the forest ecology than allowing these large trees to fall as they may, destroying younger trees in their path, creating unnecessary erosion, and often times blocking waterways. Gnarled and over-sized, trees like the Western Big Leaf Maple are considered to be of little commercial value, because they are difficult and costly for large scale operations to process. These outfits are only equipped to process straight trees with smaller diameters. But the exceptional figured wood occasionally contained by these giants is recognized as a gem in the forest by savvy outfits and seasoned artisans alike. Precious in more way than one, Western Maples serve the crucial environmental function of shading and cooling the waterways they commonly grow along.

The economic value we create for these trees helps incentivize the sustainable harvesting and replanting of varied species in the micro environments where they thrive and serve their highest purpose.