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Protection of Old Growth
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.”
