What Is Old Growth?

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About a third of forests in the world are old growth and they're mostly in Brazil, Canada and Russia. It can take a hardwood forest in the US between 150 to 500 years to regain old growth characteristics up to thousands of years for other forests. Most forests in the US and Europe are on their second lap.

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.

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