After 90% of California’s Kelp Forests Were Destroyed, SeaTrees Is Restoring Them

Video featuring a kelp restoration in California. “Could you imagine if 90 percent of the trees on land disappeared in 10 years?” Kevin Whilden, co-founder of Sustainable Surf and SeaTrees, lobs the rhetorical question in the air and lets it hang for a beat before stating the obvious: “People would know about it and be quite upset.” Well, SeaTrees and SeaVees have teamed up to do something about it.

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After 90% of California’s Kelp Forests Were Destroyed, SeaTrees Is Restoring Them

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