The Manistique River's drainage was one of the last zones in Michigan to be clear cut, with old-growth timber being felled as late as the 1910s.

At present the timber felled in this district is carried by road to Montgomery Station, for despatch by railway.

Students in carpentry class are helping to repair school buildings and construct a small chapel in memory of the dead, using timbers felled by the storm.

Like tall timber being felled, he teetered for a moment, then crashed into a.tray rack, sending the rack and its contents every which way.

Cf. Bilbo's song at Rivendell: 'He built a boat of timber felled in Nimbrethil to journey in .'

Cf. the beginning of Bilbo's song at Rivendell: Earendil was a mariner that tarried in Arvernien; he built a boat of timber felled in Nimbrethil to journey in ... 4.

(26) Stanza 1 Earendil was a mariner that tarried in Arvernien: he built a boat of timber felled in Nimbrethil to journey in.

Eärendil was a mariner that tarried in Arvernien; he built a boat of timber felled in Nimbrethil to journey in; her sails he wove of silver fair, of silver were her lanterns made, her prow was fashioned like a swan, and light upon her banners laid.

It is estimated that 20 to 40% of the timber felled and exchanged in the world is illegal timber.

Cf. Bilbo's song at Rivendell: 'He built a boat of timber felled in Nimbrethil to journey in ...' (The Fellowship of the Ring II 1).