Why Recycled Lumber?
Different people are motivated by different issues. The obvious answer is that it’s the right thing to do. Reusing the lumber from old buildings keeps this valuable commodity in circulation where it would otherwise wind up in a burn pile or landfill. Reuse softens the demand for high-quality wood that can only be had by logging our remaining old-growth forests, thus helping to conserve ancient forests and reducing impacts on the fish and wildlife that depend on them. In regard to redwood, commercial logging of old growth trees is near its end. The best way to secure remnants of this precious resource is to re-use what a previous generation removed from the forest. Here are some other very good reasons to choose recycled lumber. All of our lumber is old growth lumber, sawn from some of the first forests to be harvested in the late 1800’s and early part of the 1900’s. The grain is closely spaced and, since it is air dried (as opposed to kiln dried), the natural resins of the tree and the
