Steven Threndyle is a freelance writer based in North Vancouver, B.C. He has written hundreds of articles on residential and recreational housing projects throughout the province for RightSizing, the Vancouver Sun, BC Business and Western Investor. View his on-line portfolio at http://sthrendyle.contently.com/
The term “mass timber” might conjure up straight-grained lumber milled from gigantic old-growth Douglas fir and Western red cedars forests — the backbone of B.C.’s housing and forestry industry until quite recently. In fact, the opposite is true.