Why are white cedar shingles superior to red cedar?
There is a scientific explanation for the capacity of white cedar to be true to its strengths generation after generation. Think of it in terms of life force, or vibrancy. White cedar has it. Red cedar is fading. The red cedar of legend–wonderful, strong and straight–exists today only in protected forests. The red cedar logged today is cut from third, fourth and fifth generation red cedar trees that (well, to put it gently) don’t quite have the strong, true, and noble characteristics of their ancestors. White cedar, however, has the good genes to stay true to its old growth ancestry. In other words, third, fourth and fifth generation white cedar maintains the attributes of the original forests. View our Comparison Chart.
