Norm Abrams - yes that's it exactly. 'Popular media' has covered this thing, but the science journals no. A reservoir in Ghana flooded some valleys in the 1960s. Trees died of course, and did not decompose. Meanwhile some high-value species were cleared from land. Now there is a company that built a combination submarine/chainsaw that is delightfully named the sawfish. Certainly one can cause old-growth forests to exist again. Takes more than a human lifetime. Problem.
ftl, the brass tape exactly mirrors copper-clad sailing ships. The Spanish Armada did not clad their ships and thus lost to the British. Wood at sea! What a thing! Earlier, Columbus had his fleet eaten out from under him by terido (or gribbles I do not know).
bisco, beavers eat phloem (the outer part that offers more nutrition). But they also 'eat' whole trees to structural failure. Need a lake for the lodge. If beavers from Canada were not needed to replace the depleted Russian supply, new-world colonization might have gone very differently. It's an amazing planet, I tells ya.
