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The state Department of Natural Resources has seized more than two dozen logs it says a timber crew featured on the History Channel’s reality show “Ax Men” illegally salvaged.
Chief enforcement officer Larry Raedel says officers served a search warrant on S&S; Aqua Logging to retrieve timber the company had pulled from the Hoquiam River.
Raedel says the company didn’t have a permit to salvage those logs, and officers were tipped off after watching the show.
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