Are We Depleting the Redwood Forests?

Redwood Forests

Lumber-producing redwood forests have proven to be well managed and sustainable. Harvested lands always are replanted and resources from water to wildlife habitat conserved and protected. Roughly 90 percent of managed redwood forestlands have been certified sustainable by the Forest Stewardship Council or Sustainable Forestry Initiative, and all redwood forests are subject to California's strict environmental regulations.

There are more than 1.7 million acres of redwood forests thriving in California about the same number of acres as we had before the Gold Rush, with about 400,000 acres held in public parks and reserves. Towering redwoods (redwood is the tallest tree in the world) and spectacular old-growth groves are typically found at the mouths of rivers and where centuries of periodic flooding deposited layers of nutrient-rich soils. Virtually all old-growth trees are protected from harvest, and forestry companies invest millions of dollars to enhance water quality throughout the redwood region.

Redwood lumber comes from privately owned, second- and third-generation forests that have raised sustainable forestry to new heights. With active management, forest-regeneration and continued conservation, there will be more redwoods in the near future than there are today.

Source: www.calredwood.org

New Years Eve Eagle Project

Marblehead Elementary School

Eagle Project:  Barrett Croft, a student, worked with the school to come up with a design and construction plan to fence in a gardening area that is set aside to be farmed by the individual classes.  This will give the students an opportunity to learn about green living, agriculture how to get their hands dirty and hopefully in the process develop a bit of a green thumb.  We were happy to help out with the project.  On the first day posts were set in concrete footings, the arbor was built and the entry slab was poured.  The next week they finished installing the fence rails and pickets.   

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Updated Website:
Check out the changes going on at our website.  A special thanks to http://www.aaronrobertson.com/ for their assistance with the design and development of our new site.  

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Kessler Bull Construction, Inc. ...Time to start the Blogging!!!

We have fine tuned our website (http://www.kesslerbull.com/) to offer plenty of photo's and info about the company. 

Then we started a facebook page (Kessler Bull Construction, Inc.) to give people a place to follow our latest work upload pics for jobs that we have completed and/or comments about our work.  We have been using this space to include info about new products along with reminders about home maintenance items that we all should stay on top of. 

We now have began to post video's on YouTube to educate and inform homeowners about our products, company updates and opportunities to save money. 

With the latest cell phone technologies available to us, we are now able to take video's and photo's with ease and post to all of these different platforms.  Through the internet we feel like we will be able to reach a greater population compared to the old method of driving to your house to for the inspections and estimates.  Granted, this method has it's uses and it's limitations.  If the technology is there, why not use it when practical right!