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A Brief History of Forestry in Europe, the United States and Other Countries (Toronto, 1911) Hidy, R. W. et al. Timber and Men: The Weyerhauser Story (1964). Miller, Char, ed. American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics (UP of Kansas, 1997). Pyne, Stephen. Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (Princeton UP, 1982 ...
As the logging industry expanded, the 1880s saw the introduction of mechanized equipment like railroads and steam-powered machinery, marking the beginning of the railroad logging era. Logs were moved more efficiently by railroads built into remote forest areas, often supported by additional methods like high-wheel loaders , tractors and log ...
In the narrow sense of the terms, wood, forest, forestry and timber/lumber industry appear to point to different sectors, in the industrialized, internationalized world, there is a tendency toward huge integrated businesses that cover the complete spectrum from silviculture and forestry in private primary or secondary forests or plantations via the logging process up to wood processing and ...
Logging on federal timberland in California follow national regulations, and until 1990 the USFS was practicing clear-cut logging on public lands. Recently, the USFS in California has been utilizing the GTR-220 protocols that encourage more thinning or selection logging on its public lands.
After trees are selected for harvest, the next step in logging is felling the trees, and bucking them to length. Branches are cut off the trunk. This is known as limbing. Logs are taken by logging truck, rail or a log drive to the sawmill. Logs are scaled either on the way to the mill or upon arrival at the mill. Debarking removes bark from the ...
Floating logs down a river worked well for the most desirable pine timber, because it floated well. But hardwoods were more dense, and weren't buoyant enough to be easily driven, and some pines weren't near drivable streams. Log driving became increasingly unnecessary with the development of railroads and the use of trucks on logging roads ...
Logging, by a mile. According to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 67 loggers died on the job in 2015. ... How Is the Logging Industry Responding to These Dangers?
A lumberjack c. 1900. Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in the United States, when trees were felled using hand tools and dragged by oxen to rivers.