Prices vary depending on the type of wood, the quality and length. One by-product of the milling of logs is waste bark and wood. Huge piles of the waste are found beside the river near every sawmill. While some of this material is used for charcoal or other products, most of it drifts downstream during the next time of high water. The boards also provide jobs in secondary industries such as this woodworking shop.
Many fine artisans construct both simple and elaborate work from the wood.
The logging operations provide jobs for many people in the Amazon areas when little else is available. Without other means of providing income, the cutting of the forests is destined to continue and to continue at an ever-increasing rate. The cutting of the Amazon forests has many implications. One the good side, it provides jobs for many people and support for their families when little else is available. On the bad side, species are lost to the world every day and the forest does not seem to be able to rejuvinate itself well.