timber trade
Selling felled trees
The timber trade is the business of harvesting, processing, and selling wood—from raw logs to finished lumber.
Historically, the timber trade shaped colonial economies and frontier expansion, with timber merchants controlling vast forest resources.
Today it encompasses everything from sustainable forestry operations to global commodity markets: The Pacific Northwest built its economy on the timber trade.
- sawmillLog-to-board factory
- lumber yardWood retail facility
- export tariffsTaxes on outbound goods
- loggingRecording system events
- clear cuttingHarvesting entire forest stands
rough sawn · deforestation · silviculture · import quotas · rafting · forest stewardship · selective logging · old growth · plywood · veneer · wholesale distribution · market analysis · shipbuilding · log cabin · mahogany · teak · tropical hardwood · boards
- timber industrylumber, sawmills, logging camps, lumberjacks, lumber mills
- Canadian HistoryConfederation, Rupert's Land, colonial era, colonial government, self-government
- forestrysilviculture, forests, forestry, reforestation, ranger station
- loggingloggers, lumberjacks, chainsaws, chainsaw, felling
- trade historycommerce, merchant, traders, colonial economy, trader
- ancient tradeSilk Road, caravan routes, sea routes, river routes, maritime routes
timber tradeforest conservation
Protecting wooded ecosystems systematically
forest preservation · reforestation · afforestation · wilderness preservation · tree planting