A proposal for workforce housing for forest service workers in the Tahoe region built from sawmill waste lumber known as ‘planer trims’. At Tahoe Forest Products sawmill, offcuts and full boards that fail quality control are diverted to waste piles reaching volumes of tens of thousands of board feet per day. Measuring 18”-22” long and fully planed, this reject lumber becomes the inventory for a modular mass timber system built using crib-stacked aggregation and interlocking, leveraging an abundant, low-cost material stream to reduce construction costs. The project links forest management through the thinning of dense stands, fire mitigation through surface fuel reduction, and affordable housing production for the workforce that performs this labor.