peterng
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Enjoying the final stages of adolescence
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Post by peterng on Sept 22, 2006 13:42:41 GMT -5
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Post by Ken Corbett on Sept 25, 2006 13:09:49 GMT -5
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tgneal
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Little Falls - St. Croix River , NB
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Post by tgneal on Sept 25, 2006 17:05:56 GMT -5
Hey great job guys!
Now all we need to do is organize a campaign to remove all those logs from the bottom of the St. Croix! Ha ha.
Should only take a couple hundred years.
Seriously, this is a great initiative.
Keep up the good work.
Tom
P.S.: Nice pictures.
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Post by Ken Corbett on Sept 25, 2006 17:14:26 GMT -5
I was chatting with a paddler today and he mentioned the logs at the bottom of the St. Croix.
His vision is to get a backhoe to run right down the river when it's shallow and pick up all the logs and pile them on the shore. Then the next dream would be to haul all these pulp logs to a mill.
In his dream world, a mile a year of the river could be cleaned up, and it would be done by our next lifetime. Georgia-Pacific would pay for it, as that's the company who ran the river full of logs for several lifetimes.
I think that would create more damage than it would mend. But yeah, it would be nice to haul out all those logs. I know they are running a log-removal project on the Madawaska River in Quebec and NB up by Edmundston, where the same problem exists. Perhaps their experience could be used in the St. Croix.
Could be worth looking into ...
Ken
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ldmrt
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Post by ldmrt on Sept 26, 2006 5:08:55 GMT -5
I've heard that those logs(at least in one area) can be worth tons of money because many of them are birds eye maple? Wouldn't that be cool? That might be one way to get the logs out if somebody thought they were worth something.
There has been many years of log drives on the rivers up here and I would have to say that I've never seen any log piles on the bottom of the river. There are a few places though that there is still no trees grow on the high river banks because that was one of the places that they slid the logs into the river. That is kind of neat.
However, I've hijacked this post.... Ken and all who did the tire removal::: GREAT JOB!!!!
Linda
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tgneal
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Little Falls - St. Croix River , NB
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Post by tgneal on Sept 26, 2006 10:49:13 GMT -5
I always thought that if I won the lottery I would hire college and High School students during the summers to go around the rivers and lakes of NB cleaning up all the junk.
Anybody in this forum friendly with the McCains or the Irvings? If so maybe you could whisper this suggestion in their ear.
It'd be a great way to give back to the province.
Take it easy,
Tom
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