All trees have a life cycle, so we are making every effort to save the trees we can from ending up in the waste stream. When trees need to be removed from the Urban Forest, we preserve their natural beauty and also limit carbon emissions by salvaging trees lost during storms, disease, or normal senescence and recycling this wood into usable raw lumber.
Our urban wood offers a story unlike any other, as it brought back to life… A true Street Tree Revival®.

​25 years ago, West Coast Arborists, Inc., (WCA) started an urban wood recycling program in collaboration with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF). WCA is a tree maintenance and management provider serving cities, counties, and school districts. Since a number of trees living within our local urban forest eventually decline and require removal, it became imperative to identify ways to salvage what we can as a way to reduce our carbon footprint.