Bucked Up? What Do You Mean?

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"I just like had this moment of like, I literally at that time had just paid $11 a board foot for oak from Illinois for this commission," he says. "Then I started doing some research and talking to people and found out that a lot of recycling coordinators around the county are like, yeah, we mulch it."

What’s the customary 5th Anniversary gift? Apparently… WOOD! So we wrangled our favorite sawmill owner/operator of LA’s Angel City Lumber, Jeff Perry – who rescues downed street trees from the chipper and turns them into beautiful planks, boards, stumps and chonks. We cover everything from forest management to 2x4s, wood grain, burls, bog logs, sawdust, tree disease, asparagus tips, salvaged lumber, kiln drying, Westward expansion, Indigenous forest management, cedar whiff, and how working with wood changes your relationship to death.

Angel City Lumber website

Donations went to The Mother Tree Project via this link

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