timber-cruise

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a survey of a tract of forest to determine the quality and quantity of timber on it.

See: cruise ((n.))(def. 2)

Quotations

1933

The people in Mud Lake remember the lumbermen by . . . their timber cruises and gigantic booms of wood as though it were yesterday.

1956

"Someone offered me a job on a timber cruise up in the north Ontario bush."

1958

A PWA helicopter . . . is employed by the B.C. Forest Service on a timber cruise of the Kootenay Lake area.