saplings

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Regrown forests, especially with monoculture commercial saplings planted rank and file, may never achieve the splendid complexity of virgin forests.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

We quickly walked into a bed of knee-high sequoias saplings so thick I couldn’t estimate their number.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

The work follows the planting of 450 saplings at the site in March 2025.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

Only raccoons are said to live in the Karlshorst buildings and birch saplings are sprouting out of a balcony.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

Finally, as the light faded, they fastened the mats of bark onto the willow frame, a half skeleton of pliable saplings.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich