lumber camp
Forest workers' base
A lumber camp is a temporary settlement where loggers live and work during timber harvesting operations.
Historically, these were remote outposts with bunkhouses, a cookhouse, and equipment sheds, housing crews for months at a time: He spent three winters at a lumber camp in northern Minnesota.
The term evokes rugged frontier labor and isolation.
- loggersPeople who fell trees
- timberWood for construction
- fellingDowning standing timber
- bunkhouseCommunal sleeping building
- axesHeaded chopping tools
chainsaws · woodsmen · timber industry · pines · clearing · old growth · cookhouse · foreman · logs · log jam · chopping · wilderness · log cabin · flannel · plaid shirt · boots · sawdust · tall tales
- frontier towngeneral store, saloon, sheriff's office, livery stable, hitching post
- remote settlementsoutpost, wilderness outpost, trading post, frontier town, colony
- lumberjackinglogger, chainsaw, axe, felling, skidder
- logging sitesclearcut, sawmill, landing
- forestlandswoodland, timberland, forest reserve, forest preserve, national forest
lumber campsawmill
Log-to-board factory
furniture factory · paper mill · lumber mill · woodworking shop · timber yard
lumber campcity
Large populated area
urban center · metropolis · downtown · luxury resort · permanent residence
lumber camptree nursery
Facility cultivating young woody plants
nature preserve · forest reserve · conservation area · national park · tree plantation
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