forest ranger

noun

: an officer charged with the patrolling and guarding of a forest
especially : one in charge of the management and protection of a portion of a public forest

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Female forest rangers in Indonesia are rare, says Eulis Utami, director of an nongovernmental organization called Hutan Itu Indonesia, or Indonesia is Forest, which aims to educate Indonesians about their tropical rainforest, the world’s third-largest. Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2025 Jack De Mave, who portrayed a U.S. forest ranger on Lassie and an unconventional date for Valerie Harper’s Rhoda Morgenstern on the second episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died. Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2025 Think of forest rangers trained to spot the faintest signs of a wildfire. Amarandhar Kotha, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025 First responders — including sheriff’s deputies, state forest rangers, state police and local firefighters — descended on the crash scene around 6 p.m. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 26 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for forest ranger

Word History

First Known Use

1830, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of forest ranger was in 1830

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“Forest ranger.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forest%20ranger. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.

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forest ranger

noun
: a person in charge of the management and protection of a forest

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