Andy McLean’s Storm Trees business originated with an encounter with a city forester. He’d been a garage wood-worker for a few years by then and, when a storm felled a white oak tree in a park across from his house, “I’m like, ‘There’s a lot of lumber in there.’”
He started harvesting the tree with an electric chainsaw and, at one point, found the forester’s note nailed to the log: “Call me.” Turns out, he couldn’t do
