The coast redwood is among the most extraordinary organisms ever to exist — living more than 2,000 years, growing taller than any other species, and storing more carbon per acre than any forest type ever measured. But a century of fire suppression, decades of fuel accumulation, prolonged drought, and the expanding wildland–urban interface have created fire behavior these ancient ecosystems have never faced.
Less than five percent of original old-growth redwood forest remains. Each catastrophic wildfire — from the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex to the megafires that now arrive with terrible regularity — pushes these irreplaceable ecosystems closer to permanent loss.
Our division operates a fully integrated, three-phase system: prevention before fire, rapid response during fire, and ecological restoration after fire — a model of distributed wildfire defense built for the realities of the modern American West.
