Sentences with phrase «old logger»

I once saw an old logger camp schoolhouse in the Sierra Nevadas and have never forgotten it.

Those that want to remain on terra firma can explore the forest floor along 100 miles of old logger trails that were established back in the days of logging mahogany trees.

Bob and the Trees (Director: Diego Ongaro, Screenwriters: Diego Ongaro, Courtney Maum, Sasha Statman - Weil)-- Bob, a 50 - year - old logger in rural Massachusetts with a soft spot for golf and gangsta rap, is struggling to make ends meet in a changed economy.

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In the Huangnihe conservation district, a patchwork of old growth forest and reforested former logging areas adjacent to Jilin's two main tiger habitat reserves, Huangnihe forest reserve director Li Cheng is working with scientists and conservation groups to find alternative jobs for locals, for example by training loggers and poachers as organic honey farmers.

One of Li's success stories is Xu Fu, a 42 - year - old former logger.

The 27 - year - old, who played Monteith When I first heard that Lea Michele and Dianna Agron were at logger heads with each other.

The title story, «The Lives of Rocks», in which a geologist, living in the forest and weakened by cancer treatments, comes to rely on the help and company of two children from a rigidly fundamentalist family who are happy to help until she teaches them that the earth is millions of years old; and «Fiber» in which a logger muses on his job in the Yaak Valley before turning on the reader with a direct plea to help protect the area - in a few swift words changing the reader from casual observer to participant.

John Vaillant's book The Golden Spruce — about a logger and a 300 - year - old tree — won The Governor General Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2005.

Tucked into an ocean - facing fold of Mount Tamalpais, the signature peak just north of the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County, Muir Woods National Monument protects the last stand of uncut old - growth coast redwoods in the Bay Area, where loggers had all but denuded the region by the late 1800s...

Fraser Island's timber used to be highly valued and at Central Station we could still see some of the remains that the loggers had left behind: a couple of saws, a shack here and there, a beat - up old tractor...

However, North Carolina private loggers and land - owners interviewed for a Wall Street Journal investigative report last week admitted that trees more than 100 years old, including some from wetlands, does wind up in pellet plants.

Loggers, mislead by industry, contended that they couldn't make a living if environmentalists and government regulators restricted their ability to log old growth forest.

That's what researchers are saying in a new paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters (via Mongabay): The reason is that as loggers move into older areas of the forest, the amount of biomass — and therefore the amount of stored carbon — is greater.

He joined the Canadian Navy at 17, and when he returned to his small town in Northern Saskatchewan, «my older brothers had been loggers and miners so I heard from them about logging and mining» and so, until law school, he worked in those jobs with them.