The region also benefits from use of the extensive lumber resources found in the surrounding national forests: Willamette, Mount Hood (east), and Siuslaw (west).
"The flames ate down into the extensive lumber district, but had not caught the dock line.
It is now a service point for an extensive farming, lumbering, and mining area and is also the chief administrative centre for the Kootenay region.
The tree's extensive use for research and lumber in the southeastern United States made it an early candidate for genetic sequencing.
For one, labor costs are prohibitively high, because of an array of taxes that mostly go toward supporting Italy's lumbering government and an extensive social safety net.
Along the coast, particularly around Gävle, the capital, there is extensive industrial development; paper and textiles are manufactured, and lumbering and sawmilling are important.
Highlights include exhibits on Native Americans and the industries that created the community -- lumbering, fishing, and the railroad -- providing an extensive look at the local and regional history.
Strong winter winds make extensive breakwaters necessary in Aomori's artificial harbour, which ships lumber and fish and is noted for coastal trade.
The 18th and 19th centuries brought about extensive loss of forests due to the massive impact of lumber extraction for mining operations both in central Chile and in western North America.
