I've talked with several area and regional wood turners at art & craft shows and they all have tree removal guys holding choice bits for them. They're mostly wanting non-indigenous fruit trees and such 'cause all the indigenous varieties are lying on the roadside for the taking. Good-sized pieces of cedar seem to be picked up just about as soon as they're put out.

I remember going to a show about a year after Hurricane Andrew went through south Florida and seeing some pieces the size of washing machines made from the big Norfolk Island pines which are so common down there. I don't imagine that's a tree that's way up on everybody's list of prime woodworking wood, but I guess availability leads to experimentation and the opportunity to work BIG is always enticing.