Apr 5th, 2007
Woods
As trained and inspired by the Biological Woodsmen of the Healing Harvest Forest Foundation and the Environmentally Sensitive Logging and Lumber Company of Floyd County Virginia, Mountain Works Woods serves to provide the services of Restorative Forestry to landowners and forest land entities. By cutting the worst trees first and extracting those subsequently harvested logs with modern animal powered mechanisms, Mountain Works Woods promotes long term ecological and economic gain in forest ecosystems, while providing a viable livelihood activity for its Mountain Works Woodsmen. Timber is cut and becomes the property of Mountain Works once it is severed from the stump. The raw material is sold to various buyers including but not limited to sawmills, specialized carpenters, and/or retained and stored for further processing and sale.
All revenues from sale of the material are divided between the forest land owner and Mountain Works based on practical, agreed percentages. Other products might one day include non-timber forest products. A long-term goal of Mountain Works Woods is to implement a system of Integrated Forest Management as developed by Gary Anderson of The Forest School, Inc.
We are beginning to make available community certified “Draftwood” lumber from restorative forestry harvests. Contact us with questions about this unique approach to value-driven wood products. Ian Snider is North Carolina’s only Biological Woodsmen. He joins Andy Bennett, Clifford Cox, Fredrick Ingles and Richard Drake as a member of the Healing Harvest Forest Coalition. Contracted and out-sourced.
