Myths of Logging

These logs traveled off the Amazon River to Pucallpa, Peru. A man working on the deck of the barge saw me trudging through the mud and waved me over. I climbed aboard. I asked him how big was the biggest tree he’d ever seen. He said his uncle had worked as a logger in Africa and he spoke of a tree so large that when struck with an ax, it started to rain.

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This massive tree was felled in Cameroon.

From the African interior, trees are generally transported out, not by river, but one truckload at a time. This is a photograph of a logging truck in Cameroon.