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Thu, 02/18/2016 - 12:00am
Guests Preston Browning of Salvage Works and Courtney Rae of BARK
Guest Preston Browning is founder and owner of Salvage Works, a North Portland-based company that sells reclaimed lumber from deconstructed buildings and also uses it to make furniture and fixtures. On Wednesday, February 17 during their afternoon session., the Portland City Council will discuss a resolution to insert into City Code language "to require deconstruction for the city's oldest and most historic houses and duplexes."
Although over the decades millions of board feet of perfectly good lumber have already been torn up, put in dumpsters and sent to the landfill, better late than never! And though the resolution obviously doesn't address the question of whether (and why and by who...) any particular building should be torn down, it would prevent throwing away at least some of that beautiful old growth lumber.
On the other end of the wood cycle, the Mount Hood National Forest has also seen many millions of board feet of wood ripped from its forest ecosystems, milled into lumber and shipped all over the world (some of it ending up unceremoniously in landfills...). Recently the Polallie Cooper Timber Sale was put back on the table, after it had been cancelled in 2005 after fierce community opposition. Now twice as large as the original sale, it covers 2830 acres, with 12 miles of road building in the East Fork of the Hood River drainage ten miles south of Parkdale.
BARK, the Portland-based Mt. Hood Forest protection group, is actively working to stop this sale, and organizing community opposition. Their Community Organizer, Courtney Rae, will start off the program with a quick overview of Polallie Cooper.
http://bark-out.org/project/polallie-cooper-ii-timber-sale
Although over the decades millions of board feet of perfectly good lumber have already been torn up, put in dumpsters and sent to the landfill, better late than never! And though the resolution obviously doesn't address the question of whether (and why and by who...) any particular building should be torn down, it would prevent throwing away at least some of that beautiful old growth lumber.
On the other end of the wood cycle, the Mount Hood National Forest has also seen many millions of board feet of wood ripped from its forest ecosystems, milled into lumber and shipped all over the world (some of it ending up unceremoniously in landfills...). Recently the Polallie Cooper Timber Sale was put back on the table, after it had been cancelled in 2005 after fierce community opposition. Now twice as large as the original sale, it covers 2830 acres, with 12 miles of road building in the East Fork of the Hood River drainage ten miles south of Parkdale.
BARK, the Portland-based Mt. Hood Forest protection group, is actively working to stop this sale, and organizing community opposition. Their Community Organizer, Courtney Rae, will start off the program with a quick overview of Polallie Cooper.
http://bark-out.org/project/polallie-cooper-ii-timber-sale
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