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1 ________ and maintenance may be restricted in National Forests or other wilderness areas since it can cause erosion in riparian zones.

2 Ootsa Lake and Williston Lake in ________, Canada, are notable examples where timber recovery has been needed to remove inundated forests.

3 The term "widowmaker" for timber that is neither standing nor fallen to the ground demonstrates another emphasis on ________ as a safety principle.

4 Felled logs are then generally transported to a sawmill to be cut into ________, a paper mill for paper pulp, or for other purposes like fence posts.

5 Logging is the process in which certain trees are cut down by a ________ (or machine) for forest management and timber.

6 ________ refers to what in forestry might be called timber theft.

7 Submerged forests exist on land that has been flooded by damming to create ________.

8 In common usage what is sometimes called clearcut logging is not is necessarily considered a type of logging but a harvest or silviculture method and is simply called ________ or block cutting.

9 In ________ the term logging is sometimes used in a narrow sense concerning the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Neil Riser, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Columbia, Louisiana, began working at the age of fourteen as a logger?
  • a splash dam was a temporary wooden dam used to raise the water level in streams to float logs downstream to sawmills?
  • most of the Sitka spruce in the Coast Range ecoregion of Washington and Oregon has been logged and replaced with Douglas-fir plantations?
  • the Charles Boyd Homestead is a group of three buildings that were once part of a pioneer ranch that supplied beef to logging crews in Central Oregon?
  • Lyman Run State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of logging operations, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, and a World War II Prisoner of War camp before becoming a state park in 1951?
  • Darvin Moon, a self-employed Maryland logger, had never played in the World Series of Poker before winning US$5.18 million as the 2009 main event runner-up?
  • logging in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska has put the stability of the Alexander Archipelago Wolf population at risk?
  • Oregon's Collier Memorial State Park has a logging museum with equipment dating back to 1880 including ox-drawn "high wheels", steam-powered "donkey engines", and antique saw mill machinery?
  • Scottish-born engineer Alexander Arthur spent millions of dollars in unsuccessful logging, mining, and resort enterprises in southern Appalachia in the late 19th century?
  • tree ring analysis of Swaggerty Blockhouse's logs indicate a cutting date circa 1860, well after the posted construction date for this nationally-recognized historic structure?
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