DENVER — When it comes to mass timber, the bigger value proposition is still up for grabs. Many advocates celebrate the building material’s capacity for embodied carbon storage and sequestration, but that position arguably gets diluted as the scope and scale of what we’re building grows at exponential rates. And for an industry predicated on building accountability into the supply chain, going big only makes that mandate harder to maintain. …According to Kyle Hanson, CEO of Timber Age Systems, in Durango, Colorado, “We can’t afford for it not to be local.” …Timber Age Systems, which Hanson founded in 2018, creates CLT panels from Ponderosa pine lumber that is sourced entirely from wildfire-prone forests in the Durango area. …For Hanson, the issues of affordable housing and forest management are intertwined. And cross-laminated timber just happens to be the vehicle that allows Timber Age to make the larger value proposition work.