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 couple, who have been together for 11 years, exchanged vows before an array of conifer branches and lights - their two young sons had front row seats.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025
Angiosperms, or flowering plants, grew back faster and denser than the previously ubiquitous conifer relatives had been.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024
They also found similarly amplifying feedbacks in other permafrost-relevant processes, like the loss of boreal conifer forests due to fire -- but here, too, only at the local to regional scale.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 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
Its species name, cedrus, refers to cedar trees, evergreen conifers similar to those that existed in Late Triassic forests.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 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
These conifers, though still small, have started to produce pine cones—seeds to help spread more plant life and return the forest to an area once again filled with towering trees.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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