How to Use forest ranger in a Sentence

forest ranger

noun
  • The spark came not from generals but from forest rangers.
    — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • There, forest rangers shout at tourists who clamber foolishly close to ledges.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 15 May 2019
  • And then later, near the park headquarters, a burly forest ranger.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 15 May 2019
  • An experienced hiker has a small spruce tree — and forest rangers — to thank for saving her life.
    — Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In the middle of the night, they were awakened by forest rangers knocking on the door of their lakeside cabin.
    — Hilary Howard, New York Times, 15 July 2023
  • Since the wildfire had already cleared most of the slope, all the skiers needed to do was strike a deal with the local forest ranger.
    — Justin Franz, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The bear was with her three cubs when she was captured in a trap filled with fruit, after forest rangers with dogs tracked her footprints in snow in the area.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
  • As a young man, Beaulieu considered being a priest, a forest ranger or an architect.
    — Hillary Davis, latimes.com, 22 June 2018
  • For reasons that were completely hazy to me, the redheaded guard had brought in a gun-toting forest ranger and a very eager drug dog.
    — Jeff Winkler, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2020
  • When a small contingent of forest rangers tried to calm things down, the villagers roughed them up and snatched a mobile phone to stop them from calling for backup.
    — Hari Kumar, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2019
  • An and his team set up camera traps after receiving reports from local villagers and forest rangers of the animals.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • When a tight end in each contest ran as alone as an Alaskan forest ranger, for example, each QB hit him for a lengthy touchdown.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Actor portrays a forest ranger in Josh Ruben's horror-comedy.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 25 June 2021
  • Jamie Seguerra, a forest ranger, said visitors ask her a few dozen times a day to disclose Methuselah’s location.
    — Soumya Karlamangla Adam Perez, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The carcass, found bloated and floating in a stream in the rural northern state of Kelantan, was discovered by forest rangers.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 13 July 2024
  • In 2010, the Forest Service made White an honorary forest ranger.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2022
  • In the winter of 1942, on the shores of a lake high in the Himalayas, a forest ranger came across hundreds of bones and skulls, some with flesh still on them.
    — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
  • On a routine patrol a few months earlier, a forest ranger had discovered a pile of flitches waiting for pick-up in a clearing between the woods and the access road.
    — Carlos Duarte, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • For centuries, starting in the era of czar Peter the Great, Russia cared for its forests through a system of government forest rangers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Rhode Island’s principal forest ranger, Ben Arnold, is worried about the drought extending into the fall.
    — Jennifer McDermott, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The majority of the bombs were discovered by civilians — forest rangers, farmers or residents of villages surrounding the city.
    — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • Taken away by the forest ranger, the cub brothers embark on a treacherous odyssey across Canada to be reunited with one other and with Alma.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 Nov. 2021
  • An experienced hiker, Lloyd was out on the 4,060-foot mountain alone and survived the night waiting for forest rangers to rescue her.
    — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Among the last holdouts is Delancey Wells, a former forest ranger who maneuvers her way into a job at the Every with the hope of tanking it from the inside.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2021
  • In some instances, forest rangers can blast cannons and other military artillery at unstable snowpack to trigger avalanches in a safe and controlled manner—when people aren’t present.
    — National Geographic, 19 July 2019
  • The search effort mobilized state and local police, forest rangers, K-9 units, drones, underwater divers, and volunteers.
    — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The outdoor-activity center is a place full of testosterone and taxidermy, where many of the men look like Wilford Brimley playing a forest ranger at various stages in life.
    — Emily Nunn, Outside Online, 3 June 2019
  • At least four people have died while attempting to snap pictures for the gram, according to the New York Times, which spoke to a state forest ranger about the dangerous craze last August.
    — Fox News, 2 Sep. 2019
  • This is a consequence of documenting the devastation of an extensive area of forest and the aggression that loggers cause to the forest rangers and to indigenous authorities that protect it.
    — Adie Vanessa Offiong, CNN, 3 May 2023
  • In December 1982, a forest ranger came across a car in a desolate spot near the Des Plaines River, and heard pounding coming from inside the trunk.
    — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2021

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