09/10/2026
Historically, all of our wood has come from urban reclaimed trees, salvaged from cities instead of forests.
But we’ve got a new interest: fire salvaged trees from the catastrophic fires affecting California’s forests. Wood that would otherwise be left behind to enter the wastestream.
This is one of the most sustainable ways to source wood. It reuses a finite resource, and it actively avoids deforestation.
In 2025, the Sierra National Forest was hit by the Garnet Fire. We were able to acquire roughly 20,000 board feet of fire salvaged Cedar, and we decided to give it a second life.
A lot of this wood gets written off. Large production sawmills consider these logs unusable because of the defects fire leaves behind. But underneath that damage, there’s still a huge amount of good, usable wood.
So instead of leaving it to rot, we hauled it out.
This is where it ends up: as real building materials, right here in the Bay Area.
🪵 Fire Salvaged Cedar
