TIMBERLAND • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Timberland

... United States Forest Service, of more than three thousand members. During this period, also, forestry, both as a profession and as a public necessity, has won enduring public recognition, and at the same time more public timberland has been set aside for the public use and to remain in the public hands than during all the rest of our history put together. To-day the National Forests are reasonably safe in the protection of public opinion, not against all attack, it is true, but ...

— The Training of a Forester • Gifford Pinchot