1. What do you mean by Taiga? Where it is located?
2. What do you mean by 'lumbering'?
3. Who are lumberjacks?
4. Name three categories of lumberjacks.
5. Discuss about different types of lumbering industry.
6. Who are: a. High riggers, b. sawers/buckers, c. skidders, d. Haulers?
7. Why saw mills are usually located by the riverside?
8. Why lumbering is mainly carried out in winter season in Canada?
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1. The taiga is a forest of the cold, subarctic region. The subarctic is an area of the Northern Hemisphere that lies just south of the Arctic Circle. The taiga lies between the tundra to the north and temperate forests to the south. Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, and Siberia have taigas.
2. Lumbering is defined as cutting down trees and turning them into pieces of wood used for building.
3. Lumberjacks are mostly North American workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into forest products.
4.According to the work in which they are involved , the lumberjacks are divided into four categories - the high riggers , the sawyers or buckers , & the skiddres & the haulers or transporters.
5. Lumbering, or the commercial extraction of timber is one of the most important economic activity of the forest. Almost all the forest region on earth has developed its own lumbering industry which are markedly different from one another.
6. The various categories of Lumberjacks include the high riggers, sawers or buckers. Skidders and haulers or transporters. The high riggers are people who climb the tall coniferous trees to cut off its branches first and then trunk. The sawers use saw and axes to cut the trunk into lengths measuring 1 to 5 m.
7. A sawmill or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a ... Early sawmills simply adapted the whipsaw to mechanical power, generally driven ... As mills grew larger, they were usually established in more permanent facilities on a river, and the logs were floated down to them by log drivers.
8. Lumbering in Canada is usually carried out during winter due to the following reasons: The sap from the trees stops flowing making it easier to cut. The felled logs could be easily collected on the frozen grounds and taken to the river banks.
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