as in lumberman
a person whose job is to cut down trees the loggers were obliged to plant as many trees as they cut down

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Recent Examples of logger 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 The buildings hearken back to days when miners and loggers crowded the main street’s saloons. Cassidy Randall, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025 Longwood’s modern history begins a half-century later, when the industrialist Pierre S. du Pont purchased the arboretum to save it from the logger’s ax. airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024 Knott’s, however, gave the ride, one that moves in its flume at a relatively brisk pace, a narrative about turn-of-the-century loggers, showing the world that thrill rides could carry a story. Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for logger
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  • 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.
    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.
    Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2023
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  • The book’s cast includes boarding-school jocks, fetishists in full-body rubber suits, lonely lumberjacks going courting in the depths of winter.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Plaid can be preppy, when seen in suiting, or for the lumberjack in a flannel shirt.
    Christina Holevas, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
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  • The resignations continued this week when top foresters who oversaw forests in California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota stepped down effective March 28, according to the NFFE.
    Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The Appalachian Trail, which spans 14 states along the Eastern Seaboard, traces its origins to a 1921 proposal by forester Benton MacKaye.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025

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