tract

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When the trees of the Singer Tract were at last clear-cut beginning in 1937, however, the wolves it had harbored were shot on sight, as they were when the leases of other refuges expired.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Ornelas, who rents a house in the Boggs Tract neighborhood, says she has to wear a mask just to work outside, or to clean the soot off her car every few days.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2024

Jamie Rumbelow, whose company Tract build tools to navigate the planning system, said the Lib Dems had shown a “lack of interest” in the specifics of how to build new homes.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2024

After the logging in the Singer Tract, the ivory-billed woodpecker likely went extinct, and the birding debates—and expeditions to find remnant populations—began.

From Slate • May 27, 2023

The Lazarus woodpecker was last seen in a forest in North Louisiana known as the Singer Tract.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley