The island historically had extensive rainforest cover, but the area shrank due to heavy logging for the Malaysian plywood industry.

For instance one of Canada's largest manufacturing industries is the pulp and paper sector, which is directly linked to the logging industry.

The logging industry, after many years of activism, has in recent years moved to a more sustainable model.

Initial settlements were connected with the logging industry.

Manufacturing has been the greatest employer in Cadillac since the logging industry.

The logging industry expanded significantly in 1889 when Seattle Lake Shore & Eastern Railway built a station in the center of town.

In the negotiations starting in the late 80s preceding the two countries ' entries to the European Economic Area and later the European Union, they insisted on exemptions from the EU rules citing environmental concerns and the transportation needs of the logging industry.

The kauri logging industry was profitable in the island's early European days and up to the mid 20th century.

One exception was the logging industry, in which conflicting needs and ideologies enabled the preservation of significant tracts of forest.

A significant forestry industry operates including logging of both plantation and natural forest timber, a large paper mill.

In the forest products industry logging companies may be referred to as logging contractors, with the smaller, non-union crews referred to as " gyppo loggers.

In 2008, the logging industry employed 86, 000 workers, and accounted for 93 deaths.

Specifically, critics argue that the costs and energy used in collection and transportation detract from ( and outweigh ) the costs and energy saved in the production process ; also that the jobs produced by the recycling industry can be a poor trade for the jobs lost in logging, mining, and other industries associated with virgin production ; and that materials such as paper pulp can only be recycled a few times before material degradation prevents further recycling.

A lumberjack is a worker in the logging industry who performs the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into forest products.

** Darius Kinsey Photographs Images from 1890 – 1939, documenting the logging industry in Washington State.

Many occupations and industries are represented including the logging and lumber industry.

The town was incorporated in 1887 and remained an important town for the logging industry in the Santa Cruz Mountains through the end of the 19th century.

Its arrival in virgin wilderness sparked a massive logging industry almost overnight, spawning immigration from the United States to the Choctaw Nation -- and communities along its length.

The growth of the economy in Lincoln County has been related to development resulting from the J. Strom Thurmond Dam and Clarks Hill Lake ; the logging business and new industry.

In Lincoln County, logging is a multi-million dollar industry.

By this time, industry in Houma consisted largely of plantations for sugar cane, the harvesting of seafood, fur trading and logging industries.

They may take direct action against what they see as systems of oppression, such as the logging industry, the meat and dairy industries, animal testing laboratories, genetic engineering facilities and, more rarely, government institutions.

Soon, the logging industry began to thrive, with large sawmills opening in Rosboro and Glenwood.

Heli-logging, which uses heavy-lift helicopters to remove cut trees from forests by lifting them on cables attached to a helicopter, may be used when cable logging is not allowed for environmental reasons or when roads are lacking.

Timber remains a factor in the economy, with logging and cut hardwood production.

Harmful effects from strip mining and clear cut logging are still being corrected.

In the late 19th century, Celina prospered as a logging town, receiving logs that had been cut in the forests to the east and floated down the Obey River.

The Holt and Balcolm logging company set aside one tract of land in which they did not cut the original growth.

As the Union Pacific Railroad was pushing west to link up with the Central Pacific Railroad, as part of the First Transcontinental Railroad, they sent logging crews into the Snowy Range, in the Medicine Bow Mountains, to cut down timber ( mainly Lodgepole Pine ) for railroad ties.

The logging was so extensive that loggers cut down almost all of the native forest.

The arms show a logging hook, which in the area was used to haul the logs, cut in the surrounding forests.

* Soviet objective to cut Finland in half across the Oulu region-while appearing reasonable on a map, this was inherently unrealistic, as the region was mostly forested marshland, with its road network consisting mainly of logging trails.

The natural vegetation of the area is lowland rainforest ; however much as been cut down by logging and clearing for farmland and pasture.

Serious poverty elsewhere in the country has brought thousands of land hungry settlers into the cut over forests along the logging roads.

It is an unconventional tactic, used to discourage logging by creating a mantrap which may injure or kill lumberjacks who attempt to cut down the tree or mill workers who process the wood.

The efforts were publicized by the New York Times and the Washington Post, and gained federal support with the aide of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, but the state of Tennessee rejected the logging companies ' offering price for the land, and the forest was cut right up to the community's boundaries.

It was a popular tourist attraction until it was illegally cut down in 1997 as a protest against the industrial logging practices.

Tree sitters have successfully prevented logging of ancient old-growth forests for months at a time, and in some instances have convinced logging companies not to cut trees in some areas.

At this time, cut timber would be floated down rivers in large timber rafts from logging camps to ports such as Montreal and Saint John, New Brunswick.

The depletions occur mainly because the creation of dams and excessive clear cut logging on the steep rugged slopes of the area both contribute to large amounts of silt in the stream beds, which in turn interferes with the salmon spawning, as they need exposed gravel beds in which to lay their eggs.

On March 26, 1974, the day the lumbermen were to cut the trees, the men of the Reni village and DGSS workers were in Chamoli, diverted by state government and contractors to a fictional compensation payment site, while back home labourers arrived by the truckload to start logging operations.

Pressure from habitat destruction in the form of logging also increased as refugees fled the cities and cut down trees for wood.

The Middle Prong is formed by the confluence of Lynn Camp Prong and Thunderhead Prong at the former logging town of Tremont, where it has cut a deep gorge.

In other summers, he cut down trees in Utah for the forest service and repaired railroad cars, as well as working as a dishwasher for a logging company in Utah and later moved on to assistant cook.

A skidder is any type of heavy vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest in a process called " skidding ", in which the logs are transported from the cutting site to a landing.

Cut-to-length logging ( CTL ) is a mechanized harvesting system in which trees are delimbed and cut to length directly at the stump.