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
The spruce bark beetle, or Ips typographus, has been munching its way through the conifer trees of Europe for decades, leaving behind a trail of destruction.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
Angiosperms, or flowering plants, grew back faster and denser than the previously ubiquitous conifer relatives had been.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024
A nonnative tree-killing insect is invading northern Utah, attacking subalpine fir and potentially triggering yet another die-off of the region's long-stressed conifer forests.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2024
They were still flying over subarctic taiga, a seemingly endless landscape of conifer forest—in English this is sometimes called “snow forest.”
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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
It’s surrounded by a six-acre preservation full of towering conifers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
"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
The conifers had it all over their funeral draperies.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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