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"Big Ben Wilkinson moved to Hawai`i to ride big waves. He’d always worked hard for a living, but to be able to drop his tools and go surfing whenever the waves got huge, he knew he had to work for himself. That meant shifting from construction jobs to salvaging and milling discarded wood that was bound for the burn pile or the landfill—and then crafting the reclaimed slabs into beautifully finished furniture and surfboards."

PHOTOS: (Top to bottom) “Albizia isn’t generally revered in Hawai‘i”, Ben Wilkinson says, “but I couldn’t bear to see such a magnificent tree sent to the dump.” TRAVIS RUMMEL; Ben makes the first cut to salvage slabs from a felled albizia trunk on O‘ahu. A fast-growing invasive species, albizia are changing the composition of Hawaiian soils and threatening the integrity of native forests in Hawai‘i. TRAVIS RUMMEL; After three years of air drying, Ben fires up the planer to start work on a 25-foot monkeypod slab salvaged near Waimea Bay. Hale‘iwa, Hawai‘i. TIM DAVIS; Introduced to Hawai‘i a century ago, albizia is recognized as the world’s fastest-growing tree species. Its presence suppresses native vegetation, and it’s also weak for its size, with limbs breaking easily and posing hazards to people and property. Here, Ben Wilkinson puts the slabbing mill to work on a newly felled giant. TRAVIS RUMMEL; When the waves get big, the wood can wait. North Shore, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. JUAN LUIS DE HEECKEREN