fir
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They also dropped by Pyongyang's top cadre school, where they planted a fir tree symbolising their evergreen friendship, Xinhua reported.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
A $5 permit, a hike through the snow, and a glorious Douglas fir we covered in lights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Ford’s fir and birch-burners are radiant examples of human-made art triumphing over digital manufacture.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
Forest is more valuable there than in the South due to high prices for logs from Douglas fir trees that often are exported to Asia.
From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 2025
She selected a tall, dark, but slightly dried-out Douglas fir.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Would retaining a subset of old firs help new ones to thrive?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Across the river on a span built by Romans and following the path through firs and beech, we soon reach a bend where the Irati turns back south.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
The two creeks flow through rocky canyons shaded by pines and Douglas firs, where ferns grow along the banks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
Those seedlings were of no use in the mountainous and coastal West, with its cedars, firs and Ponderosa pines.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Massive Douglas firs and cedars grew in the misty hills outside town.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
