Rustic Furniture

Posted By admin on June 9, 2011

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From the shores, cities and forests of British Columbia to the underwater jungle below the Panama Canal, Coast EcoTimber is making groundbreaking strides in the forestry sector. Its president, Alana Husby, comes from five generations of B.C. loggers and is committed to sustainable forestry through local and international sourcing of salvaged wood, including rescued city trees, wood from old logging sites, driftwood from local beaches, beams and timber from old buildings and underwater hardwoods.

“The Earth is calling for it – it’s a new revelation. When I started this company, it was based on reclaimed, rescued and rediscovered woods,” said Husby with a smile. “I feel good, but more importantly, the story is just remarkable with these woods.” Remarkable, indeed – this Vancouver entrepreneur is making history, as her company has secured the rights to harvest unique and valuable tropical hardwoods submersed 80 feet in the underwater jungle of the Panama Canal.

During the construction of the canal in the early 20th century, then president Theodore Roosevelt authorized the damming
of the Chagres River, creating Gatun Lake, the world’s largest man-made lake at that time. In doing so, an old-growth jungle the size of
Montreal was flooded and the hardwood species lost beneath the water. Almost a century later, Husby and international operations partner Arnie Dewitt have launched a salvaging project in the Panama Canal in which loggers dive down
and cut the trees using submersible hydraulic chainsaws, lubricated by vegetable oil, to reclaim the perfectly preserved wood.
As the log is released from tremendous underwater
BY RENU SINGH

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