the loggers were obliged to plant as many trees as they cut down
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His dad, a former logger, and his mom, a former schoolteacher, founded West Wind in 2000.—Stephanie Pearson, Outside, 14 Jan. 2026 Adapted from Denis Johnson’s novella, Train Dreams stars Joel Edgerton in an elegiac, mournful portrait of a logger at the turn of the century.—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026 By the early 20th century, after several centuries of rape, disease, enslavement, and land confiscation by colonizers, rubber barons, and loggers, their numbers had been reduced to 300.—Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026 Related Stories The film follows Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker living in the Pacific NorthWest.—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for logger