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Lumbering Research

1. Men who logged the forest were called _____________________________?
2. What type of tree did lumberjacks like to use the best?
3. What did each of these jobs do?
a. Sawyers
b. Swampers
c. Barkers
4. How were logs transported from the forest to the mill? Why did they have to
be transported like that?

5. Who was Paul Bunyan?

6. What did the river pigs do?

7. How did the building of railroads change the industry of logging?


8. What was the largest lumbering center in Michigan in the 1800s?


9. Write down five interesting facts you have learned from the websites while
researching.
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