scrubland

AFP journalists saw families arriving in pickup trucks piled with blankets and other belongings, setting up shelters in scrubland exposed to the sun and heat.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

With all that growth, new development has expanded farther and farther into the fire-prone scrubland surrounding the Sierra Nevada foothills city just across the California border.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The fires in Spain and France ripped through forests and scrubland, destroying homes and campsites, forcing the evacuation of over 300,000 residents and vacationers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

A body was found in scrubland in 2007, the state of decomposition indicating it had been there for decades.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

Below this, a bit of open scrubland dropped sharply down into the forest proper.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

Programmes to free hundreds of captive lynxes and restoring scrublands and forests have also played an important role in ensuring the lynx is no longer endangered.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2024

She then added climate data from up to 6000 years ago and asked the model to predict which species could have slithered through ancient Egypt’s savanna and scrublands.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 16, 2023

But decades of widespread hunting and habitat loss have winnowed their numbers in the United States to fewer than a hundred individuals, which now roam the thorny scrublands of South Texas.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 5, 2023

Two wildfires that ravaged different parts of Spokane County on Friday afternoon destroyed 300 structures, including homes and outbuildings, and torched 18,000 acres of homes, scrublands, farm fields and forests.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2023

And, too, out of the hundreds of creeks running through the scrublands, I only saw one that had gone dry.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde