Treeworks

08/03/08

Mike Goulder lives in a treehouse. Not the kind that requires a rickety ladder and a password, but a simple family dwelling peppered with salvaged wood and fine sawdust.

Years of pruning boughs and pulling stumps as an arborist for the city of Boise opened Goulder's eyes to how much wood is wasted. Non-compete laws force the Forestry Department to dispose of rather than sell or donate most organic materials, and he had a hard time watching so much potential rot.

"I saw all that wood being trashed all the time and thought somebody needed to do something with it," Goulder said . . .

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