Some of the big log floats I've read about came down the Eastern Seaboard
from New Brunswick, Canada. Once assembled they'd come down from the Bay of
Fundy to points further south. I imagine some of the big river techniques
were the same but maybe not.

Nearby New York City, we have a beautiful stand of trees along the Hudson,
just to the north on the New Jersey side. Since firewood could be cut and
dropped off the Palisades (or "The Chips" as the Dutch once called them when
the Hudson River was named after Maurice of Orange I believe. Verrazano
called it a "great escarpment" and was shown centuries later to have been
right by geologists) to be burned in fireplaces in the City, it was
maintained as a small "Sherwood Forest" for the rich. Later coal was shipped
on a canal started by Mayor Hone, across Pennsylvania through Honesdale, PA
across to the Hudson River and down to NYC I learned recently. I live in a
part of the Bronx that many of the streets named after Mayors and Presidents
(around Morris Park, which isn't named after the cat) and even a small
street section after Regis Philbin!

George Myers