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Recent Examples of loggersIn 2024, two loggers were killed in bow-and-arrow attacks after entering Mashco Piro territory, and subsequent sightings have placed members of the group close to active logging areas.—ABC News,
25 Sep. 2026 The Ojibwe people originally lived in the area, but like much of Northern Michigan, it was taken over by loggers during the mid-19th century.—
Savannah Born,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Sep. 2026 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the fatality rate among structural ironworkers is among the highest in the nation (right up there with commercial fishermen and loggers).—
Jeff Goodell,
Rolling Stone,
11 Sep. 2026 For decades, loggers and environmentalists have clashed over the fate of its stately redwoods.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Sep. 2026 Twenty years before her great-grandfather opened the boat tours, the waterway was a highway for loggers, but the logjam of 1886 was a doozy.—
John Lauritsen,
CBS News,
20 Aug. 2026 In 2011, loggers started illegally cutting rosewood trees in the mature forests of eastern Panama where Wounaan people live.—
Chenier Carpio Opua,
The Conversation,
5 Aug. 2026 So somebody with my background who’s actually worked through these problems and brought people together — like very divergent interest groups together, like the tribes, like environmental groups and loggers.—
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
29 July 2026 Gómez González had been known as a vociferous antagonist of loggers.—
Vann R. Newkirk Ii,
The Atlantic,
28 July 2026
The history of gubernatorial candidates and winners in Wisconsin is replete with mayors, merchants, lawyers, lumbermen, publishers, educators, industrialists, secretaries of state, attorneys general and lieutenant governors.
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Craig Gilbert,
jsonline.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Where once these trees stood in the island of Negros, sugarcane now dominates, all benefiting the hacenderos who welcomed the American lumbermen to clear the forests for later agricultural conversion.
Letrell often wore Ben Davis shirts, a popular brand among lumberjacks, with the iconic monkey logo.
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Meghan O'Brien,
NBC news,
8 Sep. 2026
Three times a day on the Lawn, Lee LeCaptain and his crew of touring lumberjacks are performing feats of logrolling, axe-throwing and other tricks involving wood and sharp objects.
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Israel Schuman,
Des Moines Register,
18 Aug. 2026