You Go Up to Say Crap. Yeah. Crap Wood. Can't Do Anything With It

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Eucalyptus is endemic to Australia. It's allelopathic meaning, like there's not always opportunity for other plants to grow under its canopy and stuff like this. American settlers, mostly of the European settler ancestry variety in their DNA, wood, wooded areas, woods. The forest has been so decimated because of people moving westward. And we don't have any trees to do it with and supply for everything else,.

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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Other episodes you may enjoy: Bryology (MOSS), Dendrology (TREES) Encore, Mycology (FUNGI), Indigenous Fire Ecology (GOOD FIRE), Carobology (NOT CHOCOLATE TREES)

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