Brett Martin sends young growth Sitka spruce through one of the mills at Alaska Timber and Truss on Falls Creek Road, part of the lumber for the Sitka Conservation Society's pavilion project.
Young growth Sitka spruce from Mitkof Island, milled at Alaska Timber and Truss and shipped via the Alaska Marine Highway, now forms the timber-frame structure of an outdoor learning shelter at Pacific High School in Sitka.
The impressive posts and beams of the pavilion showcase what Southeast Alaska's 50 to 60-year-old second-growth trees can produce. The structure will serve as an outdoor classroom for the alternative high school's garden-based education program.
Andrew Thoms, executive director of the Sitka Conservation Society, contacted Brett Martin, co-owner of Alaska Timber and Truss, t...
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