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Dead Wood
Now another British Columbia logging firm has received the green light from Panama’s environmental authority to log 15,000 hectares over next 15 years removing timber that was submerged 1976 when a hydroelectric scheme created Lake Bayano. Alana Husby, 37, who owns the firm, began harvesting and milling logs a year ago in a joint venture with the Kuna people. Eighty people already work for Coast Eco Timber , which has been taking submerged logs from Gatun Lake.
According to an article in THE VANCOUVER SUN,
“‘The new concession contains “hundreds of millions of board feet,’ said Husby, who found the underwater style of timber cruising there different from what she knew. And she knew plenty. Late Husby Forest Products owner Dave Husby made sure of that by insisting his daughter find her professional feet not only via a BCIT forest resource technician diploma but by working on log booms and dry-land sort operations, then the mills, the grading crews, and the free-for-all of lumber trading . . .
“After ‘growing up watching all those loggers buy new machines, new pickups and then fail,’ she’s laid down $100,000 for a Taiwan-made multi-rip saw that executes six cuts simultaneously. She’s also about to lease from Caterpillar Mexico a 980-model front-end loader that would cost well over $500,000 new.
“‘It will de-water and dry-land-sort for me,’ she said of the machine that will feed a sawmill under construction on land she bought across the street from Coast Eco Timber’s present 25,000-board-feet-per day facility.
“Rather than seek an outside investor to fund the expansion demanded by “sitting on so much wood,” she’s contracted with the operator of a China-owned 50,000-board-feet-per day mill to furnish $2-million-worth of logs quarterly.” Read entire story
