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Environmentalists are at loggerheads with underwater foresters


Environmentalists are at loggerheads with underwater foresters
Environmentalists are raising alarms about a new threat to Ontario's lakes and rivers: Underwater loggers. Suporters say the process of retrieving logs that have lain on lake and river beds for decades is potentially lucrative, even environmentally beneficial. Millions of logs sank while being transported from forest to mill in the days before cranes and trucks, and have remained there for years, often perfectly prserved. Environmentalists say that taking the logs out can damage the underwater ecosystmen because they have become crtitical to the health of fish.
AUGUST 22, 2000
National Post
AUGUST 22, 2000

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