tree
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Around 2017, family leaders created the Wolf Pen Branch entity to bring order to a family tree that has many branches and has grown to about 180 living descendants, including spouses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
On Tuesday, they were spotted together in a favorite roost tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
"Whenever we disturb the ground, when we cut down a tree and expose the soil, the fire can reignite," said fire chief Covens.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Measures have been put in place to protect an oak tree in Lincolnshire thought to date back to the time of Sir Isaac Newton, who lived nearby.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
She was so tight, they said, that she’d sit out under a tree on a hot day to save the shade on her porch.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Ancient oak and beech trees, rare heathland and even wetland have been devastated by the recent fire that swept through the New Forest, a survey has found.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
His daughter, Katie Niederhoffer, said that until the last days of his life, she kept him stocked with books, everything from textbooks and biographies to books on trees and resilience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Molecular fingerprinting revealed compounds associated with pine trees, showing that every sample was dominated by heated coniferous resin or coniferous tar, also called pitch.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
At Christmas, snow machines cover the grounds while lights are strung through the trees and holiday music plays all day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
She was almost out of sight now in among the trees, as Mutti came stumbling back towards us.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
The cattle, which were tracked from June to August over two years, had access to 625 acres of grasslands and treed areas ranging in elevation from 600 to 2,028 feet.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
Set in an especially cheerless pocket of Southern California, where high-voltage lines loom over the sparsely treed landscape, it opens in the summer.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Some farmers positioned portable wind breaks and used treed areas to protect their herds from potentially deadly winds, said Karin Schmid, beef production and extension lead at the Alberta Beef Producers industry group.
From Reuters ● Dec. 23, 2022
So, he turned to Canopy Cat Rescue, a nonprofit that retrieves treed kitties across Western Washington.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2022
Rowdy had something treed in a huge bur oak that was a solid mass of green.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
By 10 a.m. the dogs didn’t appear any closer to treeing whatever it was they were chasing.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 3, 2016
Jenkins, the special counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating the case of Joe McCarthy v. the Army, had the air of an hound treeing an coon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well-fed raccoons lay trails to nearby trees, which the hounds are allowed to bark up only briefly to minimize sight treeing.
From Time Magazine Archive
He went to work then, trailing and treeing the squirrels that Little Arliss was scaring up off the ground.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
The fact of him treeing for Turk don't prove that he's afraid of a Dog; lots of animals does that 'cause they don't want to be bothered with his noise.
From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton
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