DCHP-3

timber berth

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a tract of forested land the bounds of which have been established by the government, which leases or sells the rights to fell and remove timber.

See: timber limit(def. 1a)

Quotations

1837
The selling of Crown lands by auction--and the disposal of the timber berths of the same process, thereby preventing settlement of the country, inasmuch as the poor settler would not be able to compete with the capitalist.
1957
Last year, the mission bought a sawmill and set it up on a timber berth just north of the Sunchild reserve buildings.