Salvaged lumber typically sees new life as reclaimed-wood furnishings, fixtures, and small household objects. But one local maker is preserving the precious resource by transforming it into a collection of particularly festive pieces: Christmas-tree ornaments. …Garet Robinson, founder of First Growth Reclaimed Design… producing the one-of-a-kind and extremely giftable curios are simply a way to reuse first-growth lumber, wood grown naturally in forests over hundreds of years that he rescues from residential teardowns around town. Although much of this timber is no longer sent to landfills… the self-taught woodworker felt compelled to showcase the durability and rough-sawn character of the material in a tangible object.