Understanding Logging Practices and Terminology Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

Neil Riser, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Columbia, Louisiana, began working at the age of fourteen as a logger.

a splash dam was a temporary wooden dam used to raise the water level in streams to float logs downstream to sawmills.

most of the Sitka spruce in the Coast Range ecoregion of Washington and Oregon has been logged and replaced with Douglas-fir plantations.

the Charles Boyd Homestead is a group of three buildings that were once part of a pioneer ranch that supplied beef to logging crews in Central Oregon.

Lyman Run State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of logging operations, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, and a World War II Prisoner of War camp before becoming a state park in 1951.

Darvin Moon, a self-employed Maryland logger, had never played in the World Series of Poker before winning US$5.18 million as the 2009 main event runner-up.

logging in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska has put the stability of the Alexander Archipelago Wolf population at risk.

Oregon's Collier Memorial State Park has a logging museum with equipment dating back to 1880 including ox-drawn "high wheels", steam-powered "donkey engines", and antique saw mill machinery.

Scottish-born engineer Alexander Arthur spent millions of dollars in unsuccessful logging, mining, and resort enterprises in southern Appalachia in the late 19th century.

tree ring analysis of Swaggerty Blockhouse's logs indicate a cutting date circa 1860, well after the posted construction date for this nationally-recognized historic structure.

Understanding Logging Practices and Terminology

1 ________ and maintenance may be restricted in National Forests or other wilderness areas since it can cause erosion in riparian zones.

2 Ootsa Lake and Williston Lake in ________, Canada, are notable examples where timber recovery has been needed to remove inundated forests.

3 The term "widowmaker" for timber that is neither standing nor fallen to the ground demonstrates another emphasis on ________ as a safety principle.

4 Felled logs are then generally transported to a sawmill to be cut into ________, a paper mill for paper pulp, or for other purposes like fence posts.

5 Logging is the process in which certain trees are cut down by a ________ (or machine) for forest management and timber.

6 ________ refers to what in forestry might be called timber theft.

7 Submerged forests exist on land that has been flooded by damming to create ________.

8 In common usage what is sometimes called clearcut logging is not is necessarily considered a type of logging but a harvest or silviculture method and is simply called ________ or block cutting.

9 In ________ the term logging is sometimes used in a narrow sense concerning the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard.

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