Flooring

Angel City Lumber is honored to partner with the US Forest Service, specifically through the local Angeles National Forest (50 miles from the Boyle Heights Sawmill), in milling local trees designated as safety hazards or snags in surplus of the US Forest Service’s Fish and Wildlife Standards, for commercial and residential sale to LA County. By interfacing as a constituent of the US Forest Service’s Angeles National Forest Land Management Plan, Angel City Lumber will bolster its hyper-local lumber model with forest trees that would otherwise become mulch at best or fire fuel at worst.

The Angeles National Forest Land Management Plan’s focus on wildlife habitat, forest floor biome, traditional tribal use areas, and cultural and historic standards present a tremendous chance to bring intentionality and tree recognition to sawmill production.

With downed tree species native to the local forest, Angel City Lumber will launch its inaugural “Forest Floor(ing)” line: wide-board, tongue-and-groove, end-matched, 1” overall thickness, solid wood flooring (Ponderosa Pine and Jeffrey Pine). This is made possible through the Forest Service’s Wood Innovations Grant, of which Angel City Lumber is an award recipient. Moreover, Angel City Lumber will produce structural timber, non-structural lumber, and millwork products for the Los Angeles County community from these trees through contracted fuel removal.