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February17
| Upon reading this article on Wired on underwater logging, I immediately recalled the scene in the movie O Brother Where Art Thou? when the valley is flooded with water. I’ve never considered that there could be forests growing beneath the waters of reservoirs and lakes.
But there are. About 45,000 of them globally.
I’ve also never considered that waterlogged trees at the bottom of a lake could be valuable. But they are, apparently. Because they’re cutting them, bringing them to the surface, and carting them off to be processed and sold. And using a combination of high-tech solutions (robots that cut the trees) and low-tech solutions (inflatable balloons to float the trees to the surface) to accomplish their job. |
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The process sounds like something that should have been in some underwater sci-fi movie like The Abyss. My only question, that isn’t answered in the article, is once you remove hundreds of trees from beneath a lake, what does that do to the water level? Since this underwater logging is being done by private companies, I’m wondering what environmental groups think, if there is any impact at all.
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