Gordon Black, president of Logs End Inc., to have recovered more than 30,000 logs from their underwater graves since he founded his company in 2007. Most of the logs drowned in the Ottawa River in the19th century, never making it from where they were cut down to the sawmill.

A 330-year-old Douglas fir was among 102 trees that a Brinnon, WA, man pleaded guilty to stealing or damaging from the Olympic National Forest and was sentenced to one year in jail.