Loggers work in teams to build and repair roads, clear brush,
cut and buck trees, and move logs to mills and shipyards. Who is
the world's most famous lumberjack? Paul Bunyan, of course. He
was rumored to be as big as his father when he was just a week
old. When he sneezed, he could blow down a dozen trees. Perhaps
you could consider Babe, his trusty blue ox, to be a logger too,
since she cleared log jams with a swish of her tail and liked to
pull crooked logs straight. You might be a little skeptical
about the legends of Paul Bunyan. It's possible that stories
about this legendary logger emerged during the logging boom of
the 1800s. Or maybe there really was a man named Paul Bunyan who
had a knack for felling gargantuan trees. Whatever the truth may
be, logging is a profession that goes back for centuries.
Technology has changed the job, but there are many aspects of it
that have remained the same since the beginning of the timber
boom. Loggers inspect standing trees to see if they are useful
and safe to cut