Our Origin Story: A Recovering Community

In 2021, the Dixie Fire burned nearly one million acres…

Destroying 1,300 structures,

700 homes,

and

the rural community

of Greenville, CA.

Driven by the urgency to rebuild fire-devastated communities,

Mosaic Timber was launched to manufacture CLT panels for buildings in Greenville and beyond.

This Initiative Aims to Rebuild a Local Regenerative Economy that Includes the Following:

01
Forest Restoration and Fuels Reduction Projects

Sign about the restoration project in Taylorsville, showing the Taylorsville Community Defense Zone Project, emphasizing thinning forest stands to reduce fuels, and partnerships with Sierra Nevada Conservancy and Sierra Institute.

02
Local Jobs and Revitalized Timber Economies

Staff and site workers in safety vests and helmets walking along a dirt road at the Crescent Mills site with mountains in the background.

03
Highly Fire-Resistant, Carbon-Smart Homes

Group of six people standing on CLT wooden stairs in front of a CLT home with a mix of wood and steel siding, posing for photo outdoors.
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Pine trees with light sun and some grass

Small-Diameter Wood Utilization

CLT will utilize low-value restoration wood in a high-value product, paying for ongoing stewardship of our forests.

Small-diameter and non-merchantable timber are common byproducts of forest restoration treatments done to prevent catastrophic wildfire, like thinning and fuels reduction.

However, these projects are expensive and healthy forest management is impossible to sustain without ongoing subsidy or building an economy that will pay for products developed from restoration work.

Small diameter trees are a common and consistently underutilized by-product of forest treatments, often merely piled and burned.

Nonprofit partner Sierra Institute contracts hand-thinning and other forest treatments on local public and private land.

The State of California has 33 million acres of forested lands in need of restorative management.