Reality TV is something most people enjoy but one thing about it is that they are actually happening in real time. While many would think that such actions were part of the acts, Ax Men may be paying more for this crucial act of environmentalism.
Washington state’s Department of Natural Resources on Friday seized more than two dozen logs it says were illegally salvaged by a timber crew featured on the History Channel’s reality show “Ax Men.”
DNR officers served a search warrant on S&S Aqua Logging to retrieve timber the company had pulled from the Hoquiam River without a permit, said Larry Raedel, the agency’s chief enforcement officer.
Officers were tipped off after watching the popular series, which chronicles the lives of Pacific Northwest timber cutters, including a father-son team from Aberdeen-based S&S Aqua Logging.
“They are part of the functioning ecosystem, so removing the log would be like removing part of the bed,” he said.
Hueckel said his agency typically grants permits to remove logs in situations where flooding causes log jams. It’s unlikely that a permit would be granted for timber harvest, he said.
Jimmy Smith, who owns and operates S&S Aqua Logging, said on the show that the logs were worth about $10,000, according to search warrant records.
When “Ax Men” debuted last year, it became the History Channel’s most popular series with more than 2 million weekly viewers. This season began airing March 2 and features two timber crews from Washington, two from Oregon and one from Montana.
(Source) Associated Press
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Quentin Stewart said
March 16 2009 @ 9:58 am
An underwater salvage logging operation doesn’t involve “chopping down” any trees. The amount of wood on the riverbed in some Washington rivers is anything but natural. The timber dude pulls was cut over a hundred years ago in some cases and he does it because he’s a logger who doesn’t want to “chop down” live trees.
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Angry Rogue said
April 28 2009 @ 1:17 am
I am pissed that the guy got raided by those piece of shit egomaniac washington beaurou assholes. Screw them, they are in the wrong big time, how can logs that were never there before they were cut by loggers in the first place part of the ecosystem? bullshit I say. All he is doing is cleaning up what the loggers before him left behind. Some do gooder shitmonkeys just looking to get 15 minutes of fame. I do kinda think the guy deserved it as karma, because he is such an asshole to his son, but his logging actions are not wrong