How to Use forestland in a Sentence

forestland

noun
  • Hikes through the floodplain forestland range from less than a mile, like the boardwalk loop, to more than ten miles.
    Alison Van Houten, Outside Online, 6 June 2019
  • But most of the base is forestland containing millions of trees – again.
    Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2022
  • If there’s snow on the ground, consider Badger Pass, where the kids can sled in pristine forestland.
    Kim Westerman, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • Both the resort and forestland have been closed since the fire, and some locals worry the resort is in jeopardy of shutting down for good.
    Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Our first task was to determine who owns the most private forestland in Oregon.
    Lylla Younes, ProPublica, 11 June 2020
  • The concern is that any spark could be blown into flames sweeping through tinder-dry brush and forestland.
    Olga R. Rodriguez and Christopher Weber, Star Tribune, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Forest was cut down and burned before planting, and then, when the plot became infertile, the farmer moved to fresh forestland and did the same again.
    Michael E Odijie, Quartz Africa, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Below him, a steep dropoff rolls into the forestland of the Hoopa Valley Tribe reservation.
    courier-journal.com, 1 June 2023
  • The Boeing 727 took flight again and, somewhere over dense forestland in the Pacific Northwest, the hijacker lowered the aft stairs and leapt from the plane.
    Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The report says about 87% of the primary private forestland owners are over age 51.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 1 Dec. 2020
  • And why is that crank survivalist allowing a crew of thuggish loggers to clear a path of his prime forestland?
    Tom Nolan, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • While so much of the state's desert and forestland burn, Arizona is also wrangling with a new uptick in coronavirus cases.
    NBC News, 22 June 2020
  • That weevil lived alongside the dinosaurs; its death may even have occurred in the presence of brachiosaurus, which once ambled around the same forestland.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 15 June 2018
  • Tofino is a village surrounded by old growth forestland full of black bears.
    Gary Stoller, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • While some forestland in the area was burned by the native Kalapuya people and converted to prairie, the fir and others around it were in a wetter part of forest and free to grow.
    oregonlive.com, 26 July 2019
  • More than one-tenth of California’s forestland — close to 4.2 million acres — has burned this year, more than any other on record.
    J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • What was clearer was the immense value of the forestland that firefighters were working to protect.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • Much is unknown about the government’s mining plans in the Atewa, a 90-square-mile tract of mountainous forestland.
    Stacey Knott, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Visitors can explore the vast coniferous and sand pine scrub forestland via trails that connect more than 600 swamps, lakes, rivers, and streams.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 18 June 2024
  • The get-together is held each year on national forestland.
    Washington Post, 22 June 2017
  • More than one million acres of forestland have burned so far this year in what has been one of the most destructive fire seasons in recent history.
    oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2020
  • As the owner of 100 acres of forestland, Radtke could have personally benefited from the tax cut.
    The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 11 June 2020
  • The fire already was moving north, south and west through heavy brush and forestlands in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
    CBS News, 16 Dec. 2017
  • The state land sits amid a patchwork of private forestland, national forest and land owned by the Bureau of Land Management.
    oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2021
  • For an initial payment of around $3 million to the Indonesian government, Mr. Hartono’s company gained the rights to the forestland for 60 years.
    Jon Emont, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
  • Portland officials said the city has acquired a 27-acre piece of forestland from the Avangrid Foundation.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The golf-course community consists of five neighborhoods bordered by forestland and set near ski slopes and Lake Tahoe.
    Lauren Beale, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Recent megafires such as the Bootleg fire, meanwhile, have consumed big swaths of the forestland the legislation might provide access to.
    oregonlive, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The agency also regulates logging on private forestland in the state.
    oregonlive, 20 May 2021
  • These efforts signal a return to the past, restoring balance across the landscape — Indigenous peoples have been burning forestlands across the Southwest for millennia.
    Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024

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