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
• 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
• Investors large and small snapped up forestland that big paper companies put on the market to take advantage of the interest.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• Five drown in rough waters At least five people have drowned while visiting forestland and parks in Tulare County in recent weeks.
  — Veronica Rocha, latimes.com, 9 May 2017

Last Updated: 28 May 2024