LOGGING IN THE DOUGLAS FIE REGION. 



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by logging operators before the timber resources of the region under 

 discussion were to any extent opened up. Furthermore, this region 

 is not traversed by numerous streams suitable for the driving of the 

 large timber tliat is characteristic of the region. Of course, logs are 

 frequently dumped into relatively large rivers near their mouths and 

 allowed to float singly for short distances to the sorting and rafting 

 works. 



Fig. 81. — Stationary-boom nnloader. 



Flumes and sluices are used in different regions of the United 

 States to transport sawlogs, shingle bolts, crossties, cordwood, pulp- 

 wood, mine timbers, and the like from the forest to the mills, drivable 

 streams, or railroads. In the Douglas fir region, however, log flumes 

 are not used. To the knowledge of the writer only one logging op- 

 erator uses one. For this reason a discussion of log fluming has no 

 place in this publication. Fluming is dealt with in Bulletin 87 of 

 the Department of Agriculture, under the title of " Flumes and 

 fluming." 



