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Lumber Camps
The Timber Cruise
The Timber Cruise

Date: 1934
Creator:
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Léopold Couturier, Mr. Doris Hébert, Mr. Guy Bouchard, Mr. Martin N. Turgeon

Description: In 1934, in the Kedgwick region. The teams who did the forest assesssment slept in tents. A team was made up of a leader and a guide. To determine the area of the cruise, they could use a chain to measure the distance or use the strip sampling method. They then walked 17.5 feet in one direction and repeated it in the opposite direction for a total width of 35 feet. The assessment was done within those limits.

Subject: New Brunswick,Forests, Logging, Lumber camps, Kedgwick