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
Angiosperms, or flowering plants, grew back faster and denser than the previously ubiquitous conifer relatives had been.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024
They also found similarly amplifying feedbacks in other permafrost-relevant processes, like the loss of boreal conifer forests due to fire -- but here, too, only at the local to regional scale.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024
The corridor offers sightseeing, sports and history amid conifer forests, alpine passes and more — but you’ll have to slow down a bit.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
Over every roof and path hung the boughs of the hemmens, the commonest tree of Winter, a stout conifer with thick pale-scarlet needles.
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
Farther up, he pointed out clumps of new conifers, some up to 18 feet tall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025
"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
Then I would heat my coffee and sit comfortably on my back step and contemplate wood and water and the quick-rising mountains with crowns of conifers and the fir trees high up, dusted with snow.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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