Logging

forests · industry · wood · trees

Trees get chopped. Loggers use special equipment to cut down trees safely and carefully. Once a tree is felled, workers process it right there in the forest before moving it.

Moving the heavy logs. After trees are cut into logs, they need to be skidded (dragged) across the forest floor to a loading area. Then they're loaded onto trucks or special rail cars to transport them out.

Off to the sawmill. The main goal of logging is to get wood from the forest to a sawmill or lumber yard where it can be cut into boards, planks, and other products people use to build things.

Part of forestry work. Logging is one part of the bigger job of managing forests. It involves careful planning about which trees to cut and how to move them without damaging the forest too much.