Free presentation will highlight opportunities for woodworking companies to realize benefits of using urban wood.

Free presentation at IWF will highlight opportunities for woodworkers to use the local appeal and environmental benefits of using urban wood.

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. – Royal High School is working with its home city of Simi Valley. As the city takes down trees, they bring logs to the high school woodshop to be milled into usable lumber, and then distribute that lumber back into the community. David Sorenson, woodworking instructor at Royal High School, discussed the Royal High School Urban Logging Initiative in a youtube video, https://youtu.be/YlpX2CJ9JwM

UrbanWoodExchange.org fosters creation of local networks to utilize felled community trees for lumber and wood products.

Free online directory connects tree care professionals, sawyers and woodworkers to create or grow local urban wood networks.

The US Forest Service Wood Education and Resource Center (WERC) will host a two-hour-long Webcast discussing urban wood utilization on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 10:00 am Eastern Time.

The US Forest Service Wood Education and Resource Center (WERC) will host a two-hour-long Webcast discussing urban wood utilization on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 10:00 am Eastern Time.

Tournesol Siteworks is giving urban wood a second lease on life in its new line of Boulevard outdoor benches.