timberland
Americannoun
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timberlands
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Origin of timberland
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Thompson was planning on becoming a lawyer himself when a summer working in the woods led him to join the family firm and buy timberland of his own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
And some timberland owners, worried that planting could saddle their heirs with trees they won’t be able to sell, are rethinking the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
To mitigate natural-disaster risk, Superior bought timberland in other states, but market forces have been hard to outflank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The timberland company reported net income of $162 million, or 23 cents a share, compared with $87 million, or 12 cents a share, a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
And Young Pete, detailed to help "gather" in some of the most rugged timberland of the Blue, would not have changed places with any man.
From The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by R. M. Brinkerhoff
The company is creating a digital twin of its timberlands and studying semiautonomous logging equipment like skidders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Among the initiatives he oversees is the creation of a digital twin of Weyerhaeuser’s timberlands using satellite imagery, drone photography and lidar, a laser-based sensor technology that self-driving cars use to map their surroundings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
General Land Office officials as they fraudulently acquired thousands of acres of timberlands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2025
The company, founded in 1900 in Tacoma, has 9,200 employees and manages 11 million acres of timberlands in the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
These thick, dense timberlands extended westward to the prairie country.
From The School Book of Forestry by Charles Lathrop Pack
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