He had sold log furniture, cooked at a family restaurant called Little Annie's and honed his snowboarding skills.
"We cut trees down, we cut them up into logs, we sold logs, we loaded them, we knew how many bags on a lorry, we knew what it cost us.
When the villagers were pressured into selling logging rights to their rainforest in 1988 to build a new school, Cox and his wife offered to help secure funds for the new school in return for an agreement with the villagers to protect their forest.
There are other people who sell logs, but Joe has taken it to the next level".
Crown Pacific, based in Portland, Ore., produces and sells logs and operates sawmills.
The company is centered in the Vologda region -- it owns the plant that has revived Sokol's economy -- and it sells logs and sawed timber to Russian and European markets.
During several weeks in February, iDefense tracked an effort to sell log-in data for 1.5 million Facebook accounts on several online criminal marketplaces, including one called Carder.su.su
Former President Charles Taylor, currently on trial for war crimes, was accused of selling "logs of war" to fund his brutal regime, forcing the UN to place sanctions on timber exports.
For 100 years, the Uaxactuneros had lived by selling logs and harvesting the forest for chewing gum and (of all things) xate, palm shoots for ornamental flower arrangements.
Instead, he profited from the incident, selling logs the river left on his claim, together with trees he chopped down, for lumber.
