Other forms: foresters
A forester is a person who manages woodland. A trained forester, the forester's advice, work as a forester.
The job is planning across decades rather than seasons, since a tree planted now will be felled by somebody not yet born. It covers planting, thinning, felling and access as much as conservation.
1nounforesterA person who manages woodland.
“The forester walked us through the woods and showed us which trees were diseased.”
forester is a worker.
Old French forestier comes from forest, from Medieval Latin forestis, an unfenced wood.
Old French
forestier
Middle English
forester
English, today
forester
Middle English forester, a borrowing from Old French forestier, from forest + -ier; equivalent to forest + -er. Displaced native wuduweard.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA