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unusual facts about logging


Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec

The territory was once part of the seigneurial system in the 18th century and was travelled by several coureur des bois for the fur industry as well as workers in the logging industry as it was located nearby rich forest lands of the Laurentians and the Haute Mauricie regions near the Saint-Maurice River.


Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests

Gabonese towns among the coastal forests include Lambaréné, home of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, the logging base of Ndjolé, Fougamou base for visiting the Waka National Park and Gamba, oil hub but also base for visiting Loango National Park.

Bateau

The town of Ronceverte, West Virginia, commemorates the logging and batteau industry with an annual outdoor theatre, Riders of the Flood, where the spring rains sent harvested timbers down the Greenbrier River for the sawmills.

Battle of Shenkursk

There was only one avenue of escape that had not been occupied by the Bolsheviks, an old logging trail that lead north through the forest towards the village of Vystavka.

Brown Mountain forest

A temporary injunction on logging was ordered on September 14, 2009 by Justice Jack Forrest, after the environmental group Environment East Gippsland sued state-owned timber agency VicForests in the Supreme Court, arguing it would be failing its duty to protect native animals if it logged the two remaining coups as planned.

In 2008, logging recommenced in the Brown Mountain forest, despite Labor Party policy statements during the 2006 Victorian election campaign that they would protect Victoria's last remaining stands of old growth forest available for logging.

Call-recording software

Call recording is distinct from call logging and tracking, which record details about the call but not the conversation; however, software may include both recording and logging functionality.

Cammal, Pennsylvania

The New York Central Railroad built a line through the Pine Creek Gorge, and by the 1890s three logging railroads—the Trout Run Railroad, the Cammal and Black Forest Railroad, and the Oregon and Texas Railway (named for two nearby mountains)— connected to the main line at Campbell.

Clearview, Washington

Clearview was established on timberland that once belonged to Isaac Cathcart and had been logged by the Snohomish Logging Company.

Cyril Mann

After giving up religion and while working at various jobs in British Columbia - including mining, logging and printing - Mann was inspired by the beauty of the landscape to start painting again.

Dame Pattie

Due to the restrictions on use of equipment and materials sourced from outside the defenders country, the Australian syndicate had to obtain permission from the New York Yacht Club to buy the edge grain fir from Stone Brothers Logging, Maple Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Dellwood, Oregon

Dellwood is the site of a Weyerhaeuser log yard and was once a log dump for sending rafts of logs downriver to Coos Bay for export.

Detroit and Charlevoix Railroad

In 1893, Ward began construction of the Frederic & Charlevoix RR Co. a logging railroad interconnected at Frederic, Michigan with the Michigan Central Railroad Mackinac Division and extended 42.66 miles to East Jordan, Michigan, formerly known as, South Arm on the shores of Lake Charlevoix, formerly known as Pine Lake.

Drew, Oregon

At one time Drew's economy was based primarily on logging, but in a 2006 study, the federal government identified the Milo-Tiller-Drew area as a "community of concern" because of the negative impact the Northwest Forest Plan had on it.

Efrén Echeverría

Soon problems arose for the logging company in the forests of Capi'ibary and Villa Curuguaty.

Gyttja

As the peat is buried under new peat or soil the oxygen is reduced, often by water logging, and further degradation by Anaerobic microbes, Anaerobic digestion can produce gyttja.

Hebard – Ford Summer House

In 1878, lumber baron Charles Hebard founded the logging town of Pequaming nine miles north of L'Anse on the shore of Lake Superior.

Historical Logging Switchback Railway in Vychylovka

The Historical Logging Switchback Railway in Vychylovka (near Nová Bystrica, Slovakia) is preserved section technically most interesting part of the former narrow-gauge zig zag logging railway located in Kysuce and Orava region.

Hugh W. Hardy

In his civilian career as a geoscientist, he had a 34-year career with Exxon which included pioneering research in well-logging and 3D seismic exploration.

Izaak Walton League

In May 1973, the League sued the Department of Agriculture over the clearcut logging of Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia as being contrary to the law, which stated in part, "only dead, physically mature, and large growth trees individually marked for cutting" could be sold.

Kal Tire

Kal Tire was started in 1953 by Thomas J. Foord with the initial goal of servicing the commercial logging operations that operated in the Okanagan Valley around Vernon, British Columbia and Nakusp, British Columbia with his partner Jim Lockhead by building customers' trust.

Kingiseppsky

Kingiseppsky (rural locality), a rural locality (a logging depot settlement) in Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Lake Mai-Ndombe

Some of the main concession areas of the logging company Sodefor are to the north and south of Lake Mai-Ndombe.

Lilium rubescens

This plant is threatened by a number of factors, including development, logging, non-native species, road maintenance, and horticultural collecting of the bulbs and flowers.

Logfile

A general standard outlining a logging system is the Syslog standard (described in RFC 5424), which allows the filtering and recording of log messages to be performed by a separate dedicated subsystem, rather than placing the onus on each application to provide its own ad hoc logging system.

Loggers Leap

The ride is themed around logging in the Canadian countryside and, as with others in the Canada Creek area, had a soundtrack of country and western music including 5,6,7,8 by Steps, Cotton-Eyed Joe by Rednex and 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton which plays outside the ride, in the outside queueing area and in the ride station itself.

Lord British

Shortly before the incident, the server had crashed, and Richard Garriott had forgotten to set his invulnerability flag on when logging on again.

Louisiana Highway 110

Longville, at the height of the logging boom, was the site of one of the largest sawmills in Louisiana founded by Robert A. Long.

Lukenie River

Some of the main logging concession areas of Sodefor are on both sides of the Lukenie River, centered on Oshwe.

Nagrom, Washington

In first half of the 1950s, the city's utility arm, today's Tacoma Public Utilities began buying private land along the banks of the river between their intake at Headworks, Washington (just east of Kanaskat, Washington), eastwards to the railroad and logging town of Lester, Washington.

Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party

This party had been organised by the Newfoundland Federation of Labour with the support of the Canadian Labour Congress, to protest the Liberal government's decertification of the International Woodworkers of America in the course of a logging strike.

Newfoundland general election, 1959

*The CCF supported the Newfoundland Democratic Party which was founded by the Newfoundland Federation of Labour to run candidates as a protest against the Liberal government's decertification of the International Woodworkers of America in the course of a logging strike.

Pacific Environment

That same year, Pacific Environment worked with the Udege people in the Russian Far East to protect the three-million-acre (1.2-million-hectare) upper Bikin Watershed against logging by the Hyundai Corporation.

Payette River

Logging helped to spur even more people to move into the area, and in 1911, the Idaho Northern Railroad was constructed by the OSL, running from Emmett near the mouth of the Payette along the river, past present-day Black Canyon Reservoir, up into the North Fork watershed and ending just below Long Valley at Smith's Ferry on the river, named for a settler who bought the operation in 1891.

Pickaroon

Picaroons Traditional Ales – A New Brunswick brewer named after the common logging tool.

Pocket wilderness

Pocket wilderness is a name used by Bowater corporation and the State of Tennessee for any of several tracts of Bowater-owned private land on and near the Cumberland Plateau that the company set aside beginning in 1970 "for preservation in its natural state, with no logging or development other than hiking trails permitted within its boundaries" and registered as Tennessee state natural areas.

Rashid Mahazi

He started in the right central midfield role and was given a yellow card at the 41st minute of the match following a challenge, logging 79 minutes before being substituted for injury returning Guilherme Finkler.

Sonoma Coast State Park

The Russians are thought to have begun logging the old-growth forests directly above the coastal prairie in the early 19th century.

St. Maries River Railroad

For several years from 1980 until the mid-1980s, Potlatch also owned and operated 45 miles of adjoining former Milwaukee Road trackage, between St. Maries and Avery, Idaho, as a private logging railroad that connected with the St. Maries River Railroad.

STV Black Jack

Black Jack was originally a logging tug on the Upper Ottawa River and was based in Quyon, Quebec.

Swing yarder

A swing yarder is a mobile piece of heavy duty forestry equipment used for pulling logs from the woods to a logging road with cables.

Taipale

Taipale, former name of Solovyovo, a logging depot settlement in Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Tre Arrow

Another arson occurred a month later at Ray Schoppert Logging Company in Eagle Creek, Oregon, on June 1, 2001.

In October 2001, he suffered a broken pelvis, broken ribs and a concussion when he fell 60 feet from a hemlock tree where he had perched to protest a logging sale in Tillamook County.

Tree spiking

Severed: Forest of the Dead: Anti-logging activists sabotage a tree by spiking it, breaking the blade on a logger’s chainsaw and cutting him.

Williamsport Crosscutters

The name "Crosscutters" reflects the logging heritage of Williamsport, once known as the "Lumber Capital of the World." The city, historically having the largest amount of millionaires per capita, is on the West Branch Susquehanna River, and logging barons once lived in mansions along Fourth Street, which became known as "Millionaires' Row".

Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna

online Student Affairs Office: a Microsoft SharePoint-based information and administration platform accessible to students after logging in, used for course enrollment, browsing university announcements, tracking your academic record, checking test and exam results, requesting certificates, filling out forms, and other administrative communication with the university.

Yosemite West, California

The old Shay logging train grades have been replaced with paved roads and underground utilities, giving it a pleasant rural atmosphere.


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