Sustainable Cedar Roofing: Sourcing and Forestry Stewardship

Cedar roofs occupy a rare sweet spot in residential building: they’re beautiful, naturally durable, and, when sourced and installed with care, genuinely low-impact. I’ve specified and installed cedar shakes and shingles on mountain cabins that took a beating from freeze-thaw cycles, and on coastal cottages top residential roofing contractors where top certified roofing contractor salt spray and wind quickly expose shortcuts. The difference between a roof that we