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Recent Examples of loggerBut having seen much violence and death in his years as a logger, he’s tormented by the sense that darkness is following him around and some kind of punishment is coming his way.—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025 Hudson’s father, Cecil, a logger, had a ferocious temper that scared even his own parents, who lived nearby.—Eileen Finan, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025 It was offered to Carter amid a protest by loggers angry and anxious about his administration’s plans to expand Redwood National Park along California’s northern coast and eliminate their jobs.—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025 For other tasks like calculating timber volume, tree age and health, and measuring tree diameter, Ramsay uses specialized forestry devices like a tree boring tool and loggers tape.—Katie Bradish, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for logger
In 1960, a lumberman from North Carolina, Jack Taylor, bought the ranch and closed access to the residents of the valley with land grant rights.
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Elise Schmelzer,
Hartford Courant,
6 May 2024
Two other men also applied for a barbed wire patent with changes of their own: lumberman Jacob Haish and merchant Isaac Leonard Ellwood, according to Encyclopedia online.
Is the job done carelessly so the foresters look busy, or with care and the understanding that the end product is restoration and continued growth?
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Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
Woodlands have been converted into timber plantations where trees are harvested before their natural deaths; some foresters also remove deadwood to reduce fuel for wildfires.
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Katarina Zimmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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