Redwood Videos
We hope you enjoy these redwood videos we have produced! The videos are informative and focus on the green, environmentally sustainable emphasis we place on our work. Topics range from how to reduce carbon footprint with redwood to native birds in redwood forestlands.
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Protection of Old Growth Redwood
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Protection of Old Growth Redwood
Mike Jani, President & Chief Forester
“You can see behind me there’s still some large, old Redwood trees that haven’t been cut. And on both our ownerships we have areas like this we reserve from harvest. Big and old trees like this we don’t really know the extent of every single one of them across all the ownerships So, as we travel around and do our timber harvesting and as well with our inventorying, continuous inventory, that we do of both forests. When we find them we’re mapping them and taking size measurements so that over time we’ll develop a database of all the old trees that are on the forest. As you can see here, there have been other trees that have fallen into these groups of trees, which when you look up at the limb structure you’ll notice that there’s broken tops and structurally there’s different things going on here than what you’ll see elsewhere in the managed forest. These are attributes we want to try and maintain in the stand and in some cases develop in the stands as we manage going forward.”
Reducing Carbon Footprint With Redwood
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Reducing Carbon Footprint With Redwood
Mike Jani, President & Chief Forester
“The nice thing when you think about carbon sequestration in terms of forest growth that a redwood has to offer, is that it’s such a tremendously long-growing tree. Unlike all other conifers, a Redwood tree can grow for thousands of years and continue to sequester carbon that long and store it in its trunk. Especially when a tree is young, it’s pulling out a lot of carbon in out of the atmosphere and putting it into wood in the form of a tree. And at some point when we decide to harvest that wood, then the carbon that is stored in that wood gets put down as decks or used as siding and it still is stored as carbon in wood products.”
Fire Resistant Redwood
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Fire Resistant Redwood
Mike Jani, President & Chief Forester
“Fire has typically been a part of the evolution of the Redwood Forest. As you can see these trees behind me have probably been burned probably several times. And the result has been a big cavity that has been basically burned out between these two growing trees. We call that a “goose pen,” it’s believed that old settlers sometimes actually used that to house livestock. You’ll notice that these big redwoods behind me have very, very thick bark and it’s extremely fire resistant. So you may get charcoaling, like you see on the outside of the tree; but it arms and protects the inner, growing part of the tree so that they can take a fairly hot fire, and still continue to live. We’ve had a history of fire suppression here in the Redwood Region for almost 100 years. And what you see around us is a result of that. When you look out around this robe of redwood trees right here, you can see that there’s many young trees that have come in all around us and these trees likely wouldn’t be in here in such density were it not for the fact that fires have been excluded, fires would have burned along the forest floor here and kept many of these trees from germinating and living.”
Native Birds in Redwood Forestlands
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Native Birds in Redwood Forestlands
Mike Jani, President & Chief Forester
“Well we have several different species of owls on the property. The most, I guess the one that’s got the most notoriety is the spotted owl. But what, in this area around here we have barn owls and we’ve got pygmy owls. So this is better habitat for those types of owls than spotted owls. Right above you there you’ll see that kind of opening in that rock face and you can see sticks hanging out, some bird is using that for nesting. It may be that that our owl moved from back in the cave further out there and is currently using it. Those little pockets were developed by wind–circulating and adding sand.”
