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
  • Cox built a newsprint mill in the Augusta area and needed timberland to run it.
    — Thad Moore, AJC.com, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Campbell for more than three decades has managed timberland to produce logs for lumber and pulp mills.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 21 June 2021
  • The family later sold the mill and most of the timberland, Kennedy said.
    — Thad Moore, AJC.com, 10 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Retirement accounts and the sales of small businesses, farms, homes and timberland would be exempt.
    — Joseph O’Sullivan, The Seattle Times, 29 Mar. 2019
  • The changing forests will also pose challenges for loggers and timberland owners in the Northeast.
    — Patrick Whittle, The Seattle Times, 25 Feb. 2018
  • 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 rest of the 10 biggest landowners in the United States are owners of timberland.
    — John Maxfield, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2017
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Bailey’s data shows that 70 percent of Alabama is timberland, but that doesn’t translate to the state coffers.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 6 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Phelan wanted to reduce the limit to 5%, and apply the caps to all forms of real estate, including commercial buildings, second homes, farms and timberland.
    — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 30 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The timberland is between Stillwater and The Lakes subdivisions.
    — Kathy Jumper, al, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Near Seattle, the former corporate campus of timberland giant Weyerhaeuser was sold and its connection to the land was eroded with the construction of a warehouse and plans for more.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2026
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In January, timberland, diversified, specialty and data centers were the top performers, according to industry group Nareit.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2026
  • What many of the list share, besides their astonishing wealth, is the pursuit of snapping up farmland—including ranchlands and timberlands—an emerging asset class for the ultrawealthy to protect their wealth, hedging against inflation and the volatility of some traditional assets.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2026

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