Butternut Story
Wormy Butternut is known as white walnut. This rare species is one of the most beautiful woods in our northern forest today. Unfortunately, this diseased tree is on a rapid decline to extinction. Since the butternut canker was first discovered in southern Wisconsin in 1967, as much as 80% of all living butternut trees have perished in most states. We do support the harvest of dead, dying and diseased trees as an effort to save any healthy living butternut trees. We do encourage a few saw mills to harvest the low grade worm hold, dead or declining butternut trees. The salvaged trees give us some of the most unique and rare woods still being harvested in our northern forest. This unusual wood is full of character made by mother nature. We hope that owners of well managed wood lots, and the efforts of the USDA Forest Service are successful in their efforts to save the butternut species. Wormy butternut flooring is not for everyone and possibly not for every room, but it will be your most spectacular and favorite floor. Wormy butternut is a wonderful wood to add a hand scraped edge to; it adds to the already abundant character and charm of wormy butternut wide plank floors!
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