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As part of a forest thinning or fuels reduction project, small diameter trees are felled, limbed, and topped in the field.
Logs are moved to central locations and stacked in the woods.
Log trucks transport the logs to the Alpenglow Timber facility, debarked, and are sorted by size into log decks.
If a log is high quality and large enough in size, it goes through the process of being made into lumber by the sawmill.
Once the log is cut into lumber, the boards are put into the kilns to dry and then graded.
Once dry, the finished boards are stacked and packaged for delivery. They are transported off-site, eventually reaching construction sites.
If the log is not lumber quality, it is cut and split into firewood.
Firewood is sold and delivered locally to heat homes.
The sawdust and scrap wood produced during the process of making boards is fed into a high efficiency boiler to heat buildings on-site and the kilns for drying boards.

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