glade
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The group hopes to improve the rare habitat by carrying out veteran tree care, glade creation and invasive-species control.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
The zany movie features a young environmental advocate who “hops” her consciousness into a robotic beaver and bands together with other woodland creatures to stop a planned freeway expansion through a glade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2026
Now that she’s an animal, she struggles to learn why the others have departed the glade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
The shorelines host a plant community called limestone bedrock glade, he said, which the Michigan Natural Features Inventory labels imperiled.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
The afternoon was fading as they came back to the glade where Boromir had fallen.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Across the UK, the ants have declined due to habitat loss, woodland fragmentation and changes in land management that have reduced the sunny woodland edges and glades they rely on.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Nature herself is more than shapeless irregularity; the woods have glades and groves, animal trails and vistas; like literature, they have rising and falling action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
What if we let some beavers chop down a few trees, creating little glades of open sky next to our ponds?
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2023
Genetic analyses indicate the pythons that live in the glades are all closely related.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
“Ever since I was little,” Mullet Fingers said, “I’ve been watchin’ this place disappear—the piney woods, the scrub, the creeks, the glades.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
