Log driving is a means of moving logs (sawn tree trunks) from a forest to sawmills and pulp mills downstream using the current of a river. It was the...

significant economic benefits, providing a suitable transport route for log driving, and currently is internationally recognized as excellent sport fishing...

reaches, the driving continued until 1971, with some final emptying of the stocks in 1972. In 1973 the whole river was closed for log driving, and in 1977...

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retreat. During much of the 19th and 20th century the lake was used for log driving. This activity peaked around World War I and declined as the road network...

profession of log driving, a practice in the lumber industry which involved transporting felled timber by having workers walk or run on the logs as they floated...

downriver, or across a lake or other body of water. It is arguably, after log driving, the second cheapest means of transporting felled timber. Both methods...

Russia. It is a left tributary of the Yenisey. The river is used for log driving and irrigation. The city of Abakan is located at the confluence of the...

spent the short summers growing food and the long winters cutting trees. Logs in excess of those needed to build farming structures could be floated downstream...

industry's multiplier effects extend broadly into surrounding society. Log driving had begun by the 17th century in Finland (tukinuitto) with long rivers...