Author Archives: Jennifer Alger

New Year, New Website!

New Year, New Website

We’ve been listening to feedback from you our valued customer and have heard you loud and clear, “let us search by size”. We are happy to announce that we have now launched our new website complete with search filters.  You can search by length, width, height, price, specie, and general shape. Unfortunately our search filters […]

Sacramento’s Java City Camphor Lives On

urban lumber camphor tree java city sacramento

In 1886, 9 year old George H.P. Lichthardt planted a camphor tree on the corner of what is now 18th and Capitol Ave in Midtown Sacramento. As the camphor grew it got to see the city streets change from dirt to pavement and the vehicles change from horse drawn to motorized.

Far West & Wood-Mizer at the California State Fair

Logs to Lumber sign with Far West and WCA at the CA State Fair 2015

Far West Forest Products and Wood-Mizer are happy to be partnering with West Coast Arborists, Inc., and the California Forest Foundation at the California State Fair this year.  We’ve been educating the public on the urban forest, and the use of Urban Wood for lumber.  If you want to learn how urban foresters convert dead […]

Far West participates in Urban Wood Conference at Palomar College

Urban Lumber Conference

Please read the following article by Promise Yee, written about our Urban Wood Conference at Palomar College: Promise Yee: We all know trees provide shade, shelter for animals, and filter pollutants from the air. But what is the best use for landscape trees after they are cut down? Promise Yee Speakers William Stranger, Stranger Furniture; […]

Far West Provides Salvaged and Urban Lumber for Hobie Surfboard

Hobie Surfboard with Far Wests' Redwood and White Oak

Far West Forest Products recently supplied wood to Josh Martin of MartinShapes for a very special surfboard he built for Hobie Surfboards.   We were honored to provide the wood for his beautiful work of art from California native wood species, California White Oak, and Giant Sequoia Redwood. The following is an excerpt from His Blog: […]

Far West Forest Products Featured in Woodworkers Journal E-zine

jim evans on the Giant Sequoia Redwood he split

Far West Forest Products was honored to be featured in this weeks issue of the Woodworkers Journal E-zine.   If you haven’t already done so, you will want to subscribe to this publication to read great stories about what other woodworkers are doing.  Thank you Chris Marshall for the article on our company.  If you haven’t […]