Fatwood....a new discovery and rich yields

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Bushman5

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I would like to share an interesting observation about fatwood......

........fatwood SINKS. Yes, fatwood sinks in water...... I filled the bath tub today and was rinsing dirt off some fatwood pieces. Every single one of them sunk rapidly.

Fast forward a few hours.........one of my favorite fishing lakes is dammed by the Hydro company.......every once in awhile they drain it down almost 200 feet........and there is 3KM x 1KM wide former forest area (now under water) FILLED with fallen douglas firs and pines......and many are fatwood bearing.......

fatwood, not just on the forest floor..........

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It would be interesting to find out how many sank because they are high in fatwood and how many sank because they simply became completely waterlogged. Now you have something to do the next time they draw down the reservoir.
 
I'm going to stop by the Powerhouse next time i'm up there, and chat with the good ol boys. There is a ton of "standing" trees still under the reservoir, but there is a TON of old fallen trees that were part of the forest floor when they flooded it.
 
We have many areas in Idaho that are hidden beneath dammed resevoirs, as well, and they usually contain many amazing hidden treasures-plane and boat wrecks, old army ordnance ranges, frontier homesteads, etc. I learned the hard way not to spend extended periods of time there though, as our water fuels not only all of Idaho, but much of Nevada, California, Washington and Oregon as well, and water levels can rapidly change, as you said, hundreds of feet. In those kinds of flows, you can easily get sucked into a downcurrent or hole where what was only moments before, solid dry ground.
 
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