timberland
tim ber land
- n land that is covered with trees and shrubs
- Ford controlled rubber plantations in Brazil, a fleet of ships, a railroad, 16 coal mines, and thousands of acres of timberland and iron-ore mines in Michigan and Minnesota.
- This ransom is a big one--and likely to be the benchmark for future environmental payoffs involving private timberland.
- But rescuing the owl and the timeless forest may mean barring the logging industry from many tracts of virgin timberland, and that would deliver a jarring economic blow to scores .