Fretboard Journal Podcast 37: Maxine Trump of the Musicwood Documentary

Acoustic guitarists and mandolinists all over the world know of
the importance of Sitka spruce. It's one of the favored choices
for guitar tops (and for bracing inside the instrument). What
many musicians may not realize is that the Sitka forests in
Alaska face some of the same over-harvesting dangers that have
occured with Brazilian rosewood, Madagascar rosewood and
Adirondack spruce.


Musicwood is a new documentary that follows the fate of one
forest in Alaska and the efforts of a group of guitarmakers
(including Taylor Guitars' Bob Taylor) to slow down the
harvesting. 


In this week's podcast, we talk to the Musicwood's director,
Maxine Trump, about the project, the Kickstarter campaign
currently underway to finish funding the film and about the
current state of the Sitka forests in Southern Alaska.