“Part of the reason that we’re not exclusively alder is that it opens us up to create a market for logs and species that would otherwise be a cost center for the loggers or the landowners or there would be less in the forests as potential wildfire fuel,” explained Haddix, Patrick Lumber operations manager. “So we’ll be bringing in maple, chinquapin, madrone, all those other things that would just be left behind. Somebody has to pay to pull it out and then you have to find somebody to buy it and there just isn’t that big of a market.”
Source: https://philomathnews.com/philomath-based-lumber-company-embracing-oregon-hardwoods/