Learned Lumber builds on a foundation of relationships stretching back 100 years by Kevin Cody Michael Learned began mulling over selling the family lumber yard he had run for four decades to his employees in the early 2000s. He and his brother Rick and sister Lynn were third generation owners. Learned Lumber was founded 100 years ago, in 1924, by their grandfather George, who bought it from Bert Cook, the grandfather of Jim and Bob Cook, the third generation owners…