Kiln dried lumber would be good.

Warping and bowing can be the result of one side being more exposed to evaporation than the other. Will sometimes reverse sometimes not.

But often enough it just changes as it dries w/o much rhyme or reason.

Not sure what's available in Sacramento, but McBeath's Hardwoods has a few stores in the Bay Area, the closest to you in Berkeley, just off I-80. Major eye candy for woodworkers.

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