Korey and Joe sit down with David Merriman, President of ArborScape Inc, and Thaddeus Driscoll, Urban Wood Program Facilitator at Colorado State Forest Service, for a conversation on urban wood. David discusses the work of his company ArborScape Services as well as their subsidiary ArborScape Wood Products, which uses recycled wood to make their products. Thaddeus shares how he is helping cities to learn which wood can and cannot be reused, along with work he and David are doing together to educate the community on arboriculture. 

For more on ArborScape Services and ArborScape Wood Products you visit https://www.arborscapeservices.com/ and https://arborscapewood.com/ 

For more on David’s work with ArborScape and the Colorado Arborist Association you can also visit https://coloradoarboristassociation.com/ 

For more on Thaddeus’ work with the Urban Wood Program at Colorado State Forest Service you can visit https://csfs.colostate.edu/forest-management/community-urban-forestry/ and https://urbanwoodnetwork.org/chapter/colorado-state-chapter/ 

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Hosted by: Joe Aiken & Korey Lofy

Produced by: Nico Manganiello

Artwork by: Cara Markiewicz & Nico Manganiello