Treasure Valley Urban Wood Network
Creating value from our urban forest through sustainable growth of a local urban timber industry
About the Process
The Treasure Valley Urban Wood Network, a program of the Treasure Valley Canopy Network, maximizes the value of local urban timber. By partnering with cities, the tree care industry, and local businesses, we recycle trees into beautiful, sustainable products. This reduces waste, creates jobs, and builds a thriving urban wood economy in the Treasure Valley and beyond. In 2021, we partnered with the National Urban Wood Network to expand our impact across Idaho.
Step 1: Our Urban Forest
Treasure Valley communities care for our region’s urban forest, which includes planting new trees, caring for trees throughout their life cycle, and removing diseased, aged and hazard trees at the end of their life. The Urban Wood Network is building building partnerships with cities, neighborhoods and the tree care industry that will provide a sustainable supply of valuable wood to support our local timber industry.
Step 2: Urban Timber
Once a tree is removed, in order to be made into a marketable product, it must be “milled” into slabs, called urban timber.
The Urban Wood Network is building partnerships with local millers who can work with cities and tree care companies to remove trees, mill these trees into slabs which can then be used by local makers to create beautiful furniture and artwork.
Step 3: Local Urban Wood Products
Local “makers” take milled slabs and build furniture & artwork that they then sell to homeowners and at local marketplaces.
The Urban Wood Network partners with local millers and makers, helping build a sustainable flow of urban timber material. This urban timber is not only sustainable and environmentally friendly, it builds on a story of the benefits of our trees and how they bring value to our community even when their life ends and they must be removed.
Join the Network
Connect with us if you’re interested in learning more and engaging with the Network