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Originally Posted by Rattlesnake Gal
Yikes! Hope that never happens to us!
Are there any lumber mills in the area to rescue these logs?
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There
was an old mill in Wolfeboro's Johnson's Cove (a.k.a.
Ike's Cove), that abandoned dozens -- maybe more -- of old logs there, probably before the 2nd World War. (And one old mill at Dishwater Lake).
For reasons I don't understand, natural wood in Lake Winnipesaukee
disintegrates. Perhaps that there isn't enough silt on the bottom to prevent decay. (
More shoreline erosion needed!!!)
Those old recovered logs you've been reading about elsewhere were preserved because the oxygen necessary to degrade them wasn't available on
those lakes and rivers' silted bottoms -- even in sub-tropical Florida.
Those recovered logs command a high price because they were "Old Growth": They have very fine (and very many) annual rings. Those features are very much in demand in new Japanese 2nd homes. (Japan cut down
all their forests centuries ago. Japan is where most of our domestic Old Growth woodcutting goes today).
There's scant "Old Growth" forest in New Hampshire today -- and NHSPNHF seeks to preserve it.