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Loggers go into the forest for nine to ten months of a year.
Firewood dealers usually buy wood from loggers and then cut it to length and split it.
Often the loggers will destroy dozens of young saplings to get a few mature trees.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Forestry
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agroforestry
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carbon sink
clearing
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deforest
lumberjack
old growth
ranger
silvan
the treeline
tropical rainforest
undercut
understorey
unforested
woodcutter
woodsy
woody

loggernoun[C] (RECORDING DEVICE)

a device or program that officially records something:
A temperature logger recorded the water temperature at 30 minute intervals.
data loggerA data logger can make around 1000 readings per second.
They are recording temperatures with electronic data loggers.
Unfortunately, the data logger was faulty and most of the data records for relative humidity were corrupted.
Can I program the logger from the USB flash disk device?

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put something/someone down
re-register
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Examples of logger

logger
Unfortunately, the data logger was faulty and most of the data records for relative humidity were corrupted.
The logger was programmed to scan all channels at 5-minute intervals and to calculate and store the hourly means.
The rents are simply being captured by the illegal loggers.
By 1985, loggers had exploited 64 per cent of its forest at some time during the previous sixty years.
The logger was programmed to record hourly means.
These harvest fees, or royalties, have been criticized for inducing loggers to high-grade (to harvest only the most valuable trees).
The military specifications were precise and engineering skills would be needed in conjunction with those of loggers, sawyers, carpenters, fitters, iron smiths, and painters.
Malfunction of data loggers during summer prevented a complete data set of soil temperatures for all sites.
It is not merely that the loggers' lifestyle will be lost, but so too will be their communities.
Data were recorded every 10 minutes with a custom-built logger placed at the centre of each study area.
The loggers, on the other hand, are threatened with economic losses, for which they can be compensated dollar for dollar.
The underlying causes, which are macroeconomic variables, determine the immediate causes, which in turn influence the agents of deforestation (farmers, animal husbandry, loggers) who are the sources of deforestation.
For the logging activity, the difference between small and large loggers is based on the number of chain saws, trucks, bulldozers, and log-lifters used in the extraction process.
Decades of struggle between loggers, environmentalists, and agency officials had resulted in deadlock, with the result that the forest was suffering to the detriment of the interests of all.
The data loggers were wrapped in aluminium foil and placed in the central part of the stands at approximately 1 m height under the leaf canopy.
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