How to Use timberland in a Sentence

timberland

noun

• The timberland, the group claims, is among the quality native forests left in the state.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2021
• The rest of the 10 biggest landowners in the United States are owners of timberland.
  — John Maxfield, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2017
• Canada, with its vast forests and timberland, is the world's biggest maker of newsprint and the U.S. is its top customer.
  — NOLA.com, 31 Dec. 2017
• More than two-thirds of Alabama is covered by forests, which makes it the third-largest timberland acreage among the lower 48 states.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 12 Oct. 2019
• The meeting was part of a new project launched by UF to study the risk from a warming planet to Florida farms, ranches and timberland.
  — Jenny Staletovich, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Urbanization is the main threat to the tortoises, but timberland can be managed in a way that leaves room for them.
  — Robert Kunzig, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• Campbell for more than three decades has managed timberland to produce logs for lumber and pulp mills.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 21 June 2021
• But the cleanup task is huge and costly, and insurance doesn’t cover timberland losses, said Ms. Webb.
  — Heather Somerville, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2020
• The changing forests will also pose challenges for loggers and timberland owners in the Northeast.
  — Patrick Whittle, The Seattle Times, 25 Feb. 2018
• The second tax connected to timberland is known as Severance Tax and is levied when the trees are cut down and again when they are turned into products by a mill.
  — Christopher Harress, AL.com, 20 June 2017
• Less than a fifth of the 2.8 million acres (1.1 million hectares) of timberland destroyed by Hurricane Michael have been salvaged.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2019
• Ask a politician to change the way Alabama taxes timberland.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 6 Oct. 2019
• Retirement accounts and the sales of small businesses, farms, homes and timberland would be exempt.
  — Joseph O’Sullivan, The Seattle Times, 29 Mar. 2019
• Out of about 19 million acres of timberland throughout the state, roughly 3.4 million acres are pine plantations, Fox said.
  — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2023
• The trend is dominated by fires like the Mendocino Complex Fire—huge blazes that start in the summer and feed mostly on timberland.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
• Bailey’s data shows that 70 percent of Alabama is timberland, but that doesn’t translate to the state coffers.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 6 Oct. 2019
• In the forest, privet occupies one million acres of timberland, and is the second most invasive plant.
  — Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, AL.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The idea behind forest offsets is to pay timberland owners to log less so that the trees keep growing and accumulating carbon.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
• The Milepost 97 fire is burning in steep terrain along Interstate 5 one mile south of Canyonville, through private timberland, federal and tribal forests.
  — oregonlive.com, 26 July 2019
• The Forestland Group raised funds from endowments, wealthy individuals and other big investors starting in the mid-1990s and bought the timberland from families and small mills.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
• By Li's current calculation, Alabama brings in around $46 million in taxes on the timberlands at $2 an acre.
  — Christopher Harress, AL.com, 20 June 2017
• Still, making peace with fire — as the 2021 fire season roars to life — seems a bizarre notion to many, including wildland communities and timberland owners with tens of millions of dollars at stake.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2021
• The timberland is between Stillwater and The Lakes subdivisions.
  — Kathy Jumper, al, 24 Oct. 2021
• Leonard’s land is just a small fraction of the nearly three million acres of timberland across Florida’s Panhandle flattened by Michael’s Category 5-force winds.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 20 June 2019
• But ambitions to increase the acreage of the state forest system and to bolster efforts to help private timberland owners to sustainably manage their land have been hampered by a shrinking budget.
  — Emily Hopkins, Indianapolis Star, 11 Feb. 2018
• Gay blacks complained of dress codes banning Timberlands and sweatpants, of not being served in a timely manner at bars and of being stopped and asked for identification at clubs while white customers walked in unbothered.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2017
• Other partnerships were established throughout the region as the Anthony family acquired cut-over timberland and nursed it back to health.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2020
• The House wants to ask voters this November not just to lower them but expand them to all types of real property, including commercial buildings, second homes, farms and timberland.
  — Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
• In September, Weyerhaeuser, a timberlands company, traded its 425-acre campus in a Seattle suburb for a new building downtown that is three blocks from a transportation hub.
  — Joe Gose, New York Times, 23 May 2017
• Harvard is also looking to prune its $4 billion of timberland and other natural resource holdings, which are owned directly.
  — Michael McDonald, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2017

Last Updated: 4 Aug 2024