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Dec. 12, 2008 - Centennial Woods, a Wyoming company specializing in materials made from recycled snowfences, has found a couple of high-profile buyers for its products.

Whole Foods Markets and Bass Pro Shops are using the company's reclaimed snowfences - wooden retaining walls for snowdrifts - as design features in their stores across the U.S.

Centennial Woods has so far reclaimed 5 million feet of Wyoming snowfence, preventing more than 9,000 tons of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere and saving the state more than $9 million, according to company estimates.

Snowfences are naturally dried over decades of exposure, producing a extremely durable material that requires little maintenance, designers say.

"Designers, architects, and builders tell us they absolutely love the texture, patina, character and strength of our reclaimed Wyoming snowfence," says John Pope, CEO of Centennial Woods. "We plan to continue to cultivate partnerships with professionals who seek naturally beautiful, healthy materials with a truly green pedigree."