Re:Environmental Consideration (Score 1)

I do remember reading how under-water logging can do a lot of harm to an underwater ecosystem: if done improperly. Can't find the article any more but it talked about some individually raising fallen logs that sank before making it to a mill downstream. He scouted around and bought some vacation/cabin property where he knew a few accessible + valuable old-growth logs had sunk. And you guessed it: upon raising them the local fish stock collapsed and his neighbors got ticked.

The closest thing i could find on this is an article on sport fisherman opposed to submerged logging. Incidentally here's a more detailed article on the sawfish that was probably the source of the original post.