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Logging at the present time is confined to the more accessible
areas adjacent to the main roads, the railroads, and the large rivers.
Some of the companies are openings up larger blocks of timber by the con-
struction of all-weather main roads. Most companies have changed from
winter logging to all-year logging with only a short shut down for the
spring break-up.

The trend is towards the use of power saws and tractors in
place of hand felling and horse skidding.

In general, logs are trucked to the permanent mills. The
smaller type mills usually skid logs to the mill and truck lumber to
the shipping point.

3« Lumber Cut in the Fort George Forest District

In 1951, the British Columbia Forest Service listed in the

Fort George Forest District(4) 610 mills which have been sub-divided
as follows:

6 sawmills with a daily capacity of 50 M ft.b.em. and over.
24 sawmills with a daily capacity of 20 M ftsb.m. to 50 MN ft.b.m.
580 sawmills with a daily capacity of less than 20 M ft.b.m.

Log scale of the 3 eee cut in the Fort George Forest District
during 1951 was as follows (5 :

Species Cut (All Products) 1951

Spruces = 278,453 Mft.bsm. - 66.5%
Douglas fir - 99,246 tt SDB. 7.07
Lodgepole pine a BS) ATO u = Bis Sr6
True firs (balsam) - 5,215 2 Sar BLO
Western red cedar ~- 19 " - -

Cottomvood - 219 me - Only
Other species - 72 s - -

TOTAL = 418,694 M ft.b.m. = 100.0%

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4. Sawmilling Practices

Sawmills in the Fort George Forest District vary in size from
the largest with an annual production of 25 million ft.b.m. to the small
mills with an annual production of a few thousand board feet. Probably
50 per cent of the total production is manufactured at permanent station-
ary mills. Generally speaking these are the more efficient mills; that

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(4) Listed 1951, Fort George Forest District.

(5)Log Scale from Rritish Columbia Forest Service.