Daren - Looked at your site and really liked the urban salvaging efforts. I've seen great looking stuff on city trucks headed to he burn piles, but the city won't even consider selling them - probably because of the usual mumbo-jumbo "legalities/liabilities." It's a huge waste of a resource.
In St. Paul hey're in the process of cutting down huge American elms that survived the initial Dutch Elm onslaught but are now succumbing. I know it's not the most spectacular wood around, but from what I understand, removing the bark get's rid of the bugs. I can see the city's point on this one because of infestations. But it still bothers me to see trees with 4' diameters being burned. I saw a few down already and they were actually solid in the core.
Not to mention the big walnut logs I've seen going to the same burn pile.
Good work!