Larry Greenemeier

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Larry Greenemeier is a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based business and technology journalist.


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  • Reservoir Logs

    Timber industry turns to underwater crop 3

    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    As the traditional logging industry deals with unsteady prices and the challenges of globalization, the value of a new crop is coming to light: trees hidden under reservoirs, long given up for lost.

    Sawn, but not forgotten.

    Photo: Triton Logging Inc.

    While no exact count of these "rediscovered" forests -- which are being logged primarily in North and South America, Russia, and Malaysia -- seems to exist, one estimate puts it at about 200 million trees, a global supply worth about $40 billion. These watery woods have been preserved… Read More

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