Redwood is a popular building material due to its beauty and long-lasting performance. The most productive forestland in the United States lies in a narrow strip along the California coast from just north of the Oregon border to Monterey County south of San Francisco. Here may be found 1.74 million acres1 of the nation’s tallest trees, the coast redwood. The most spectacular groves of redwoods are found at the mouths of rivers and on river benches where periodic flooding over time deposited layers of nutrient-rich soil. Unlike other trees, redwoods were able to put out new roots into each fresh layer and thrive while other species suffocated and disappeared. In addition to the numerous parks in the North Coast area, 95 percent of the acreage of the state’s other redwood species—the Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron gigantea) of the Sierra Nevada—is preserved in state and federal groves. Redwood is the only softwood in the country that sprouts from stumps. These new young trees grow quickly, thriving on the existing, mature root system. In some areas, early pioneers were actually unable to clear redwood forests to make pasture land. The trees kept returning in spite of all their efforts.
We also have blocks of this wood. They are a little larger than standard measuring; 5 in+ by 1-1/2 in+ by 1-1/4 in+
To see this handle material on a knife by Bob Lee click Here
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