Posted on 03/13/2009 4:36:03 PM PDT by llevrok
SEATTLE — The state Department of Natural Resources has seized more than two dozen logs it says a timber crew featured on the History Channel's reality show 'Ax Men' salvaged illegally.
DNR chief enforcement officer Larry Raedel says officers served a search warrant Friday on S&S Aqua Logging to retrieve timber the company had pulled from the Hoquiam River.
Raedel says the company didn't have a permit to salvage those logs, and DNR officer were tipped off after watching the show.
Calls to the company were not immediately returned. The company is one of several timber crews featured in the second season of "Ax Men."
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F'n government!
One guy and his son and now they’re out of business.
I was thinking along similar lines.
Unbelievable.
That said... I watched those guys, and while he may know some about milling old logs into pretty things, they didn’t know a *thing* about running a boat. Was rather a comedy of errors.
I will admit that I have only seen the promos for this show. But based on the promos, the people on this show are the biggest idiots alive.
Can’t have people salvaging logs because...well...we just can’t.
Mostly because they’re worth big bucks.
We are sooooo screwed.
Ssshhhhhh!
Yeah - that was pretty clear!
Ridiculous for the state to have any interest at all in logs that have been submerged for 50 years. Heck, some of them were navigation hazards, and it’s a favor to remove them.
They can’t because the govt didn’t get their piece of the action.
So what? They did the labor, and I am assuming they own the land the river’s on (or had permission). It’s not government’s right to confiscate property because “they didnt have a permit (pay the tax + register)”.
Now Now V2002 you need to lay off the red meat and eat a little more toofooo.
No - they didn’t own the land, it’s on a ‘public waterway’ the river.
all these companies are bringing them in and i suspect some churches too.
Will there be a budget buster to build an evidence room for the illegal logs?
Will the logs will have to be destroyed so that no one can benefit from the ill gotten gains?
OR, will there be millions spent replacing them from whence they came (environmental studies first, of course)?
24 old logs.
And they voted (not the logs... I hope)
Having family in the timber industry, I can say that they really overplay a lot of the dramatic elements. I’ve also been told that it’s a surprise that OSHA hasn’t come down on them for some of the stunts they have pulled on the program. However, I don’t think that the label “biggest idiots alive” is warranted at all. Have you ever tried to do this kind of work? As a teen one summer, I worked as a little scrub doing clean-up work on the landings and it kicked my ass. And that was nothing compared to the real jobs of the cutters, choker setters, etc. One thing that is very true is the level of danger in that line of work. I have nothing but respect for these guys.
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