When a live oak in his yard died last year from oak wilt, Steve Parker was surprised by how saddened he was. The tree had been with his family for years, giving shade in the summer and featuring prominently in his kid’s back-to-school pictures every fall.
He was also confronted with a question many Austinites face after losing a tree: What to do with all the wood?
Live oak “is famous for the ways in which it cracks as it dries, and a lot of woodworkers really hate working with it,” he says…