Eco-friendly wood at the bottom of a lake!

By bruno

My friend Brian tipped me off to Inhabitat, a cool green-design blog where I found this:

Turns out there are thousands of underwater forests in the world just sitting there, doin' nuttin'. According to the Triton Logging Company, maker of the Sawfish (that cute guy pictured above), there are more than 300 submerged million trees worldwide (many due to flooding by hydro-dams).

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December 05, 2006

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beccajo

December 05, 2006

One of the most beautiful/disturbing things I've ever seen was when I was canoeing as a teenager. We floated over a a HUGE pile of water-logged logs, submerged in a bay of Lake Superior, that was apparently almost a hundred years old and the piles were hundreds of feet deep. They were strays from the lumber-cutting industry.....stunning, yet scary. We were told that trees that size and quality don't exist any more, but that harvesting them was almost impossible......however it seems like this machine might be able to do that.....