Forest Floor Project

Old Wood LLC
The Forest Floor Project by Old Wood LLC.

Wood Blocks and the Forest Floor:
The Forest Floor Project is what we call all the aspects of our business which are truly and significantly beneficial in nature to the woods and communities around us. If we can bring higher value to lower grades of wood and thereby create jobs and bring money into at risk forests and communities we can benefit the woods around us in the long run by encouraging better forest practices and management.
Floors such as Mountain High Grade, Good Pine Floors, and Wood Block flooring, bring value to lower grades of wood that otherwise might be burned, ground for mulch or otherwise ignored. 
Wood block or end block flooring, ‘done right’ has the potential to bring vital investment revenue to many forests and communities while providing it’s users a beautiful, tough floor and the satisfaction of knowing their purchase has actively contributed to a solution, not just a marketing ploy.

Moving Towards the future: 
Capacity building in flooring from small diameter timber is the title of a grant for $360,000 which Old Wood LLC received under the Collaborative Forest Restoration Program of the USDA. 
This program aims at creating cooperation and synthesis among disparate forest stakeholders while, as the the name implies, building healthier forests. We are proud to have received the money and are encouraged and re-inforced by the CFRP review panel’s having understood and vindicated our logic that without markets there is no way forward against the enormous challenge in the forests of the West. Our Wood Block Floor project should play a vital role as we take this historically important product from relative obscurity to open market acceptance.

Old Wood LLC and the Old Family believe that if we can help bring revenue, training and sustainable forestry to small towns, villages, tribes and individuals, they in turn will become the forest stewards they belong to be. 
Without a viable market, all the good ideas and great intentions in the world end up relying on outside support which can initially be helpful but in the end, create dis-enfranchisement and poor performance.
This is where End Block or Wood Block Flooring comes in! 

We envision a heathy export market for the process and the product and are excited about the terrific and varied design aspects which we are already exploring in depth. 
This site will grow as we add completed projects to our ‘book’. If you’d like to collaborate with us on a project of any size, we’d love to talk with you so please feel free to call. 

I will work with you to design a terrific floor that will incorporate all of the above aspects of design, good forest management and world class looks and durability. All at a price that works. We aim to be in the big fat middle of the value/design/price convergence.

Phone toll free anytime: 888-545-9663.

Thanks for reading, check back and do check in as we move this project forward with your comments and help. Write and call anytime! 

Your friend in the woods, 
David J. Old.
david@douglasfirfloors.com
Old Wood LLC, 425 Bibb Industrial
Las Vegas New Mexico, 87701