This probably has nothing to do with what is being talked about, but about 15 years ago I was watching ABC News one night. They had something about the Salt Lake City Public Works Department was going through the older residential neighborhoods and cutting down old hardwood trees and taking them to the dump to sit and rot. We are talking oak, maple, cherry, ash, and walnut It seemed there was somebody who operated a kiln by the airport and he was taking them and cutting them in planks and drying them in a kiln and selling them for furniture wood. The person was very knowledgeable of the various hardwoods and selling them for a pretty penny.
