Restoring Forests and Making Flooring

EBN’s usual policy is to encourage only the use of wood products certified to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards, but we recently learned of uncertified flooring that is good for the forest.

Flooring, paneling, and other wood products from Green Mountain Woodworks (GMW) in Southwestern Oregon are made entirely from thinnings—trees culled from National Forest Lands that are now dangerously dense due to decades of fire suppression. These overly dense forest areas are susceptible to catastrophic wildfires, epidemic insect infestations, and disease.