RAISE THE ROOF
FOR CALIFORNIA MASS TIMBER

BLAIRSDEN, CA · 30 DAYS IN OCTOBER 2026

The workforce housing framed with dowel laminated timber from Mad River Mass Timber, California wood, California mill. A pre-approved California ADU plan.

Every backer becomes a Founding Steward of Pineville Ranch, Blairsden Crossing, Plumas County and California's regenerative forest economy and recreational eco-tourism. Fund it, host it, or sponsor it.

Founding Funders · from $100
Founding Hosts & Builders
Founding Sponsors

MILESTONE 1 · SEED THE RAISE

The first $35,000 seeds our program team and starts panel production.

DLT Post and Beam Frame
Roof, Floor, Deck panels, GLT beam

Living Space
1200 sft, 2 bed/1.5 bath

110 PSF
Snow load design

THE RANCH MANAGER’S HOUSE

Pineville Ranch’s Workforce Housing, fire-hardened

Everyone who lives or runs a business in Plumas County hits the same wall. Fire risk keeps rising. Insurance premiums climb or coverage disappears. Building costs too much and takes too long, and there's almost nowhere for working people to live.

The Ranch Manager's House is the first answer we can build. It's our company-owned workforce housing for Pineville Ranch. It's also the test: fire-hardened mass timber, a pre-approved plan set, and a public record of cost and crew hours that the next builder can use.

renderings: atelierjones

The first building goes up so the next hundred don't have to guess.

BLAIRSDEN CROSSING

Blairsden was a Western Pacific depot town, located on the Feather River Scenic Byway and the year-round hub for the Lakes Basin Recreation Area with it’s rich history of the gold rush era. Zoned in a high fire hazard area with no fire protection district, impacted by a 2023 fire on Bonta Street and an aging water system; Blairsden Crossing is a revitalization effort to preserve and build a more sustainable collective community.

One stewardship plan for the community, the water and the forest

This is also an extension of the rebuilding efforts in Plumas County post the 2021 Dixie Fire that burned 1 million acres of forest and the town of Greenville. Mass Timber is an adopted industry and an integral part of this stewardship’s program goals:

WILDIFRES
Thinning overgrown forest and building with fire-resistant timber.

HOUSING
Homes working people can afford, built faster from pre-approved plans.

QUALITY JOBS
Mill jobs, local trades, and hands-on mass timber training.

WATERSHED
Clean, reliable Sierra water, stewarded with the Blairsden Water Users Association.

INSURANCE
Fire-hardened buildings and a Firewise community, so homes and businesses can get coverage they can afford.

FOREST ECONOMY
California wood, milled in California, paying for forest restoration.

MAD RIVER MASS TIMBER

Korbel, Humboldt County, CA

Regenerative Forest Economy built for California's Forest Health & Climate Goals

Overgrown forests feed mega fires. The small diameter trees cut for fuel reduction thinning have no primary market, so they are burned. Mad River Mass Timber, California's first vertically integrated mass timber manufacturer, turns that wood into DLT prefab wood panels, and every building that uses them helps build a more sustainable and resilient forest and community.

Dowel Laminated Timber (DLT) is a mass timber product made entirely of wood, using hardwood dowels to fasten layers of dimensional lumber together. No adhesives or metal fasteners required. Mass timber, particularly Dowel Laminated Timber, offers superior fire and seismic performance.

This aligns with California's AB 2446 initiate to cut embodied carbon in construction by 40% by 2035 which will require materials that support wildfire resilience and sustainability.

PINEVILLE RANCH

a 33 Acre Sustainability Experience Center

An innovation campus of mass timber buildings - a small lodge, community hub, and an innovation hub with amphitheater for hosted fireside chats, immersive experiences, research, workshops and events.

Our first innovation lab product is a DLT Mass Timber Workforce Housing that is based on California’s ADU pre-approved plans. If you can frame a house, you can build this one. A kit of post and beam with DLT roof and flooring panels cut and labeled to get anyone started with DLT Mass Timber and to scale the finish build on your budget. We’ve got the blueprints ready for a construction site plan to prove it!

Help Us to RAISE THE ROOF on the Ranch Manager’s House!

renderings: atelierjones

BECOME A FOUNDING STEWARD

Fund It, Host It, or Sponsor It

This raise funds The Depot's program management, seeds the Blairsden Water Users Association fire flow improvements, develops the site plan, and places the DLT panel deposit.

Not in this raise: site prep and foundation, septic install, framing, envelope and interiors for the Ranch Manager's House. The company will seek construction financing and capital to cover those.

Founding Stewards are the people and companies who helps us start this program: the first Pineville Ranch mass timber workforce home, and the stewardship of Blairsden, Plumas County, our forest, and the Sierra watershed around it. Every Steward's name goes on the Pineville Ranch Founding Stewards DLT stage wall and receive monthly build updates.

FUND IT · FOUNDING FUNDERS

From $100. Your name on the Founding Stewards DLT stage wall.

HOST IT · FOUNDING EXPERIENCES

$750 and $2,500. Learn the build, or host your own experience at Pineville.

SPONSOR IT · FOUNDING SPONSORS

$5,000 to $100,000. Put your company on a dedicated main stage panel for RAISE THE ROOF day for the first California DLT workforce home.

FOUNDING FUNDERS

ACH Preferred. Zelle and Venmo also accepted.

FOUNDING HOSTS & BUILDERS

ACH Preferred. Zelle and Venmo also accepted.

MEET THE FOUNDERS by The Depot

MAD RIVER MASS TIMBER

GEORGE SCHMIDBAUER

Korbel, Humboldt County, California

Meet the people behind California's first vertically integrated mass timber manufacturer. Sign up and send any questions .

VIRTUAL

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 · 30mins · 1pm PST