conifer
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Hanson assured me this vast landscape of brush was already making its return as a conifer forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025
"The problem is we are losing conifer forest," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
Angiosperms, or flowering plants, grew back faster and denser than the previously ubiquitous conifer relatives had been.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024
"Instead of the evergreen conifer forest coming back right away, in some regions, we see a long-term replacement of these forests with faster-growing species."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
Too far north for the larger trees, hemmen or serem or black vate, the forest was all of one kind of tree, a gnarled scrubby conifer ten or twelve feet high, gray-needled, called thore.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
The forest sees 15 million visitors each year, making it vulnerable to fires -- quite apart from its sandy soil and vegetation consisting of ferns and highly flammable conifers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
"We haven't put the conifers back and the nation needs timber."
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
This is very easy to picture on a hot day in California fire country, where conifers rustle against the eaves and the ground is dusty-dry.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2025
These regions often are in dense sections of forests — sometimes along tricky winding roads — where young conifers have taken over the forest floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
These conifers, though still small, have started to produce pine cones—seeds to help spread more plant life and return the forest to an area once again filled with towering trees.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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