Small trees, big vision: Missoula company thins little larch from forest to make floors. "North Slope Sustainable Wood"

Peter Stark is the co-owner of North Slope Sustainable Wood http://www.northslopewood.com/about.htm . The Missoula-based company manufactures flooring and trim from the kind of small-diameter larch trees that once were bulldozed and burned by loggers looking for something more substantial.

Stark got into the timber business the old fashioned way.

He bought a forest.

By PERRY BACKUS of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/10/07/business/biz58.txt