Logging camp

Before the second half of the 20th century, these camps were the primary place where lumberjacks would live and work to fell trees in a particular area.

Camps were often placed next to river tributaries so that the winter's log harvest could be floated to the lumbermills in the spring.

The requirements of the logging industry involved the creation of a working site and housing from the pristine wilderness.

[2] By their nature logging camps were temporary work sites used to harvest lumber in remote areas.

[2] Lumber cut by the lumberjacks was the source of the materials for the buildings, and camps were built in the fall prior to the winter logging season.