responsible forest products

[jason glick]

Mofga is planning on a large addition to it’s fairground facility in the next couple of years and the LIF group has taken on the task of providing as much of the material as possible. so far it seems everyone with a stake in the project (board of directors, staff, archetect, etc.) is on board. we just sent 33mbf of pine logs (mostly lowgrade from this winter’s harvest) down to a local mill to be milled into 1x then it will be sent to another local mill to be dried and planned milled into sheathing, interior and exterior. what i’m curious to here from all of you is a way to go about the rest of the material aquistion. the LIF folks alone won’t be able to do it all in the proposed time frame of a fall 2011 ground breaking, but there are a lot of woods workers around and plenty of material. we were thinking of making a decision tree that would help us make our way through all the possibilities.

within 25 miles 50 miles 100 miles, etc;
mofga woodlot,mofga member woodlot, local consolidation yard, local mills; animal powered, mechanical operations;
worst first, “sustainable harvest”, mixed value, highgrade, clearcut;

any thoughts or ideas on how to simplify or clearify something like this would be appreciated. cheers, jason

[Carl Russell]

Jason, I saw this post in the other thread also. It seems like a very interesting project. I have a lot of thought about this stuff, but I’m currently finishing some deadline work and will try to get back to this over the weekend.

Carl

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