Last year, Missouri’s St. Louis County Parks Department bought a $56,000 sawmill to help conquer small projects. Fallen trees were quickly transformed planks used to build, rebuild, or fix county-owned structures. County workers have even used it to build benches, saving hundreds on premium wood.
It proved to be incredibly valuable for the department.
“We purchased this so we could better utilize urban wood waste instead of just putting it into a dump,” Jason Pratte, a Forestry worker with the county, told FOX 2 . “We kept it under lock and key—what we believed was a secure location.”…