logging industry
Commercial tree harvesting
The logging industry encompasses the commercial harvesting of trees for timber, pulp, and wood products.
It includes felling, processing, and transporting logs from forests to mills.
The term often appears in discussions of environmental policy, deforestation, and rural employment: The logging industry has shaped the Pacific Northwest's economy for over a century.
- sawmillLog-to-board factory
- lumber yardWood retail facility
- clearcuttingHarvesting every standing tree
- clear cutSharply defined, unmistakable
- biodiversityRange of life forms
tree hugger · old growth forest · deforestation · forest fire · old-growth · pulp mill · paper mill · wood pulp · skidder · forest certification · soil erosion · engineered wood · habitat loss · sustainable yield · carbon emissions · chainsaw · plywood · trees
- Mineral CountySuperior, Interstate 90, ghost towns
- economic regionseconomic zones, industrial zones, trade zones, rust belt, corn belt
- Grays HarborAberdeen, Westport, Oakville, Ocean City
- Matapedia Valley
- Pacific NorthwestAlaska, Seattle, Oregon, Vancouver, Washington
- SeattleSpace Needle, Pike Place Market, Mount Rainier, Puget Sound, Mariners
logging industryforest conservation
Protecting wooded ecosystems systematically
reforestation · tree planting · afforestation · forest preservation · environmental protection