How to Use forest ranger in a Sentence
forest ranger
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Brian Dubay, the state forest ranger who led the search.
—Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 6 July 2018
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Since the wildfire had already cleared most of the slope, all the skiers needed to do was strike a deal with the local forest ranger.
—Justin Franz, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2019
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In the winter of 1942, on the shores of a lake high in the Himalayas, a forest ranger came across hundreds of bones and skulls, some with flesh still on them.
—Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
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In the middle of the night, they were awakened by forest rangers knocking on the door of their lakeside cabin.
—Hilary Howard, New York Times, 15 July 2023
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And then later, near the park headquarters, a burly forest ranger.
—Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 15 May 2019
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The bear was with her three cubs when she was captured in a trap filled with fruit, after forest rangers with dogs tracked her footprints in snow in the area.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
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In 2010, the Forest Service made White an honorary forest ranger.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2022
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There, forest rangers shout at tourists who clamber foolishly close to ledges.
—Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 15 May 2019
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When a small contingent of forest rangers tried to calm things down, the villagers roughed them up and snatched a mobile phone to stop them calling for backup.
—New York Times, 26 July 2019
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When a small contingent of forest rangers tried to calm things down, the villagers roughed them up and snatched a mobile phone to stop them from calling for backup.
—Hari Kumar, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2019
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An experienced hiker has a small spruce tree — and forest rangers — to thank for saving her life.
—Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
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For centuries, starting in the era of czar Peter the Great, Russia cared for its forests through a system of government forest rangers.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
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For reasons that were completely hazy to me, the redheaded guard had brought in a gun-toting forest ranger and a very eager drug dog.
—Jeff Winkler, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2020
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As a young man, Beaulieu considered being a priest, a forest ranger or an architect.
—Hillary Davis, latimes.com, 22 June 2018
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In December 1982, a forest ranger came across a car in a desolate spot near the Des Plaines River, and heard pounding coming from inside the trunk.
—Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2021
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Among the last holdouts is Delancey Wells, a former forest ranger who maneuvers her way into a job at the Every with the hope of tanking it from the inside.
—Sarah Todd, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2021
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At least four people have died while attempting to snap pictures for the gram, according to the New York Times, which spoke to a state forest ranger about the dangerous craze last August.
—Fox News, 2 Sep. 2019
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Tall and slender, a failed actor and eventual forest ranger, a Superman curl of dark hair falling to his forehead.
—Katie Gutierrez, Town & Country, 28 July 2022
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Jamie Seguerra, a forest ranger, said visitors ask her a few dozen times a day to disclose Methuselah’s location.
—Soumya Karlamangla Adam Perez, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2022
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Rhode Island’s principal forest ranger, Ben Arnold, is worried about the drought extending into the fall.
—Jennifer McDermott, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
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On a routine patrol a few months earlier, a forest ranger had discovered a pile of flitches waiting for pick-up in a clearing between the woods and the access road.
—Carlos Duarte, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
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Taken away by the forest ranger, the cub brothers embark on a treacherous odyssey across Canada to be reunited with one other and with Alma.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 Nov. 2021
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An and his team set up camera traps after receiving reports from local villagers and forest rangers of the animals.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2019
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Police searching for the suspect were being aided by forest rangers in wooded areas.
—Fox News, 17 Apr. 2018
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The outdoor-activity center is a place full of testosterone and taxidermy, where many of the men look like Wilford Brimley playing a forest ranger at various stages in life.
—Emily Nunn, Outside Online, 3 June 2019
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Actor portrays a forest ranger in Josh Ruben's horror-comedy.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 25 June 2021
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Mountain police, Europe’s equivalent of a forest ranger toting a police badge, often check a guide’s paperwork, and more than one hapless group has had its TMB trip stalled by the presence of non-licensed guides.
—Doug Mayer, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2023
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Speaking with Megan Gambino of Smithsonian magazine in advance of that visit, White recalled that her dream as a child was to become either a zookeeper or a forest ranger.
—Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
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In some instances, forest rangers can blast cannons and other military artillery at unstable snowpack to trigger avalanches in a safe and controlled manner—when people aren’t present.
—National Geographic, 19 July 2019
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Last week, Victor Cooper, a former forest ranger in northern Australia, lit a wad of shaggy bark to demonstrate the type of fire that burns at temperatures low enough to avoid damage to sensitive plants that are crucial food for animals.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2020
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