| Material Category | Plant |
| Maker Name | Angel City Lumber |
| Samples | ash, redwood, deodar cedar, blue gum, live oak, and Canary Island pine |
| Related Research | LA Ecology: Forest |
| Maker Location | Los Angeles |
| Catalog Number | 2024002 |
Angel City Lumber is a Los Angeles-based lumber mill that, through a lot of hard work, has created an almost closed-loop building material resource. They stop felled trees in Los Angeles County from going to the wood chipper, and instead mill them, putting wood to good use as a beautiful and completely local building material. Angel City Lumber sells its wood exclusively in Los Angeles County and their products have created a community of artists, furniture makers, landscape architects, and architects. Beyond providing local timber, Angel City Lumber advocates for a deeper connection with our forest ecologies by creating a more sustainable management program for our national forest resources. The samples demonstrate the diversity of wood with their spectrum of colors, densities, and apparent textures (they are all sanded and polished smooth, but it can be imagined in their raw forms the different textures they would exhibit).
Impact Categories were developed by mindful MATERIALS as part of the Common Materials Framework.
| Human Health | Material is not harmful to people. |
| Climate Health |
Company sources and sells its lumber in Los Angeles County, drastically decreasing the embodied carbon associated with the transportation of wood products. Trees sequester carbon from the atmosphere during their lifetime and act as a carbon sink when used as building materials. |
| Circular Economy | The manufacturer gives trees that would otherwise be turned into wood chips or mulch a second life as building timber, further extending the life of the product and delaying its inevitable bio-degradation. |
| Social Health & Equity |
Engaging with local lumber in a material sense has facilitated a network of local architects, landscape architects, furniture makers, tree maintenance companies, parks and forestry services, and everyday Angelinos. |
| Ecosystem Health | Stewarding healthy forest ecosystems is central to the company. |