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Recent Examples of lumbermanTwo strong lumbermen with spiked poles pushed and tugged at the logs, slowly opening a passage.—Robeson Bailey, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2025 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 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, The Denver Post, 5 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 See All Example Sentences for lumberman
Katie Waldron Cascadia – In the world of sparring environmentalists and loggers in Coastal Oregon, a wildlife biologist, a timber worker, and a pyromaniac punk come together to form an environmental activist group and navigate a blossoming love triangle.
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Katie Campione,
Deadline,
2 Mar. 2026
Star Joel Edgerton, who plays Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker in the rapidly changing America during the early 20th century, was also Golden Globes-nominated for best performance by a male actor in a motion picture (drama).
Goldsworthy had originally sought to use a site about half a mile away, but the head forester of the Buccleuch estate, Jim Colchester, had urged him to visit this spot.
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Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
Julie Clark, a community education specialist for UCANR, recalled getting a call from a local forester who spotted an unhealthy-looking coast live oak while driving in Simi Hills’ Box Canyon.