Juniper Art Logs. Like something from another planet

Aug. 18, 2011 - PRLog -- If you ever have the good fortune to walk through an ancient Juniper grove in the hills above John Day Oregon (Strawberry Mt.) you will see trees that look as if the sky had dropped a cyclone on them and twisted the tree from tip to root.  Gnarled and winding around itself like vines that have calcified and turned to stone.  Branches that grow with no particular order to where and why.
These are the Western Juniper.  The highly rot resistant, water hog weed tree being control cut from the range lands of Oregon and California.  The tree has been thought of as a blight on the range land due to its nature to overtake the landscape.  Before settlement of the west, the trees were controlled by natures cleansing agent...Wild Fire.  Now that we feel we can do a better job than nature the trees have proliferated and are turning the range into a single species environment.  We silly humans.  Why do we feel we know more than nature.
The market is opening for Juniper for many uses.  As a landscape timber, planters and decking.  Flooring and art wood.  Juniper can be used in more ways than we used to think.  One of the greatest and most beautiful have to be the decorative logs and mantles.
As Juniper grows, each day the sun passes from the east to the west the Juniper rotates and follows the sun a bit at a time.  Over decades the tree develops a twist.  Then the magic really happens when the tree reaches its adult stage and "crowns".  The twisting of branches and trunk get more and more dramatic until it looks like pythons wrestling for mating rites.
NW Sustainable Building Products in Portland Oregon is a supplier of some of the most beautiful and dramatic art logs and mantles in the North West.  With pricing that shows the folks at NWSBP care to see this unique product used in homes and galleries.  It is not a rare wood.  It has a range of 6.5 million acres in Oregon alone and it will grow aggressively anywhere the seeds land.  This is a sustainable art wood that one can work with and own with no guilt attached.  It is necessary to cut and maintain this tree for the health of the range.  It will continue to be available for future generations to be enjoyed and admired.  You can reach NW Sustainable on line at nwsbp.com for more information and links to the ecological benefits of cutting the trees and the proof that this is a truly GREEN product.