Question

can someone please tell me why is lumbering only done in winters

Answer 1

Answer: 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.

Explanation: In simple words

because in winters rivers get freezed up and so it's easy for them to put the logs

Answer 2

frozen ground is easier to move logs over than muddy soil. In older times, logging in the winter also allowed you to stack the cut logs on river ice, so that when the ice broke up in the spring the logs would be 'driven' downstream to the mill. Also, with the cold most of the under brush would be dead trailblazing would be easier