428: Mike Albrecht—Got Wood?

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

As a logger and forester, Mike Albrecht knows a lot about wood. He is the two-time president of the American Loggers Council, and he’s on a mission to reintroduce America to one of its most abundant and reliable renewable resources—wood. Mike also speaks to how we can better manage our forests to prevent wildfires.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. It's me again, joined by the ever-popular and I'm the present, Chuck
0:09.0	Klaus Meyer. Ever-popular, is that right? You're just making shit up, aren't you? I was just saying
0:14.3	things, you know? I just making sounds. I wanted to say nice things in the preamble because it
0:18.8	occurs to me that I may have been mildly disparaging during the actual episode that's about to unfold. But it was said with love. It's just
0:26.4	sitting here face to face or really, whatever, somewhat oblique, you have two laptops open.
0:32.8	You have a brand new switcher. You have a dedicated GoPro pointing at you and you've got a whole
0:37.0	separate monitor. And we had a guest sitting next to you the whole time. You have a dedicated GoPro pointing at you and you've got a whole separate monitor.
0:38.6	Yeah. And we had a guest sitting next to you the whole time. It was. There was a lot going on.
0:43.4	And amusing. If I'm being candid. I don't know how amusing you'll find it, folks, at home. But I
0:49.1	certainly enjoyed watching Chuck out of the corner of my eye, try and make sense of this podcast, which is a really good one.
0:57.3	I'm just going to say, my guest is Mike Albrecht. I'm so glad you found him. Was it Will Swain?
1:03.2	Yeah, Will Swain. Basically, we had on Ed Ring and, you know, to talk about the wild fire management.
1:13.4	Exactly, right after the fires. And he came from Will because he's also at the California Policy Center. And he said, you know, if you want a
1:18.8	good follow-up, you should talk to this guy because he is the president of the American Loggers Council.
1:25.3	And I wound up talking to him for the better part of 45 minutes.
1:29.8	I told you. You might as well have just recorded it and called that the podcast because you
1:33.8	really did talk to the guy at length. But I see how you got sucked in. He's a wealth of information.
1:39.4	He's just warm and funny and real. And really on the cusp of something that look this is a big deal guys
1:46.5	i'll just spoiler alert yeah we're calling the episode god wood it's because it amuses me but
1:53.1	there are so many things that i learned about our relationship with timber part of this is
2:00.2	forest management part of this is fire prevention, but mostly this is a
2:04.6	conversation about our dysfunctional relationship with a precious resource.
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