How to Use forestry in a Sentence

forestry

noun
  • She studied forestry in college.
  • Some of Campbell’s members would like to work in forestry.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
  • The state forestry said forward progress had been made Tuesday evening.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2024
  • Filson also maintains its strong ties to the world of forestry.
    Jim Vinoski, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • So the forestry department enlists schoolkids to help plant trees and grass plugs and build rock dams to forge a bond with the land.
    Tammy Webber, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • But Barnes, with the division of forestry, pushed back on that notion.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • The reading forestry area has a large model of a tree that students can go inside.
    Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In 1965, the Striks moved to Tantanoola, a small town in South Australia, where her father worked in forestry.
    Daniel E. Slotnik, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • The same piece related the hopes that forestry and state officials pinned on the Ponderosa Way.
    Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Nov. 2020
  • That may sound strange, but the idea is that this actually depends more on how the forestry is done.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2020
  • On Wednesday, the forestry division deployed a plane and a dozen smokejumpers to contain the fire.
    Olivia Ebertz, Anna Rose MacArthur, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2022
  • High school dropouts earn the most in mining (at $26.70 an hour), followed by utilities and forestry.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
  • His expertise in forestry will be needed in the coming two years.
    Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2020
  • The Ellis clan sold ranching and forestry equipment, and owned property all through the foothills.
    Jeffrey E. Stern, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Such rights would clash with the forestry industry which accounts for 8% of the country’s exports.
    Eduardo Thomson, Bloomberg.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Or head to the Cradle of Forestry next door to explore the grounds and historic buildings of America’s first forestry school.
    Katie Linsky Shaw, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
  • William Green, the forestry and wildlife director for the Farmer’s Federation, was among those at the meeting.
    Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The crew chief is Les Miller, a forestry division ranger from Conway County.
    Nyssa Kruse, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Workers for the city’s forestry department spend a couple of days tying down the limbs and bundling the branches before the tree is cut.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2019
  • This, of course, was before the Covid-19 pandemic and the US trade war, which has devastated the forestry sector.
    Andrew Muhammad, Quartz, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Casteel has a background in forestry and agriculture, so this is a wine that’s intimately tied to the land the grapes are grown on.
    Heather Adams, Outside Online, 9 June 2022
  • Roughly 300 people in Alaska work in forestry and wood processing, less than one-tenth of 1% of the state’s workforce.
    Daniel Grossman, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Lidar can also track forestry changes over time, even in the midst of multiple wildfires.
    Sophie Ungerleider, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The handling of the Tamarack Fire has squared off local politicians and forestry officials.
    Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 24 July 2021
  • That adjacency to nature forms the core of forestry’s appeal.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Balmoral is a working estate—deer stalking, grouse shooting, forestry, and farming are just some of the many uses of the land.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Nevada forestry officials said Tuesday that the fire’s footprint was about six miles from that grove.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Black estimates that two-thirds of the cases the agency gets are forestry-related.
    William Sanders, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The program was first established in 1915, but expanded during World War II after forestry staff left to fight in the war.
    Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The state's forestry protection area is concentrated mostly in the southern and eastern portions of rural Ohio and doesn't include Cuyahoga County.
    Troy Smith, Axios, 10 Jan. 2025

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