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On long red ribbons fastened to a metal structure around a tree trunk, people wrote wishes for success at work or school.
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
Apples are by far the most widely harvested tree fruit in Germany, and the agency said the decline was due to "recurring heatwaves and persistent dry weather during the spring and summer of 2026".
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
South Kesteven District Council said the tree in Manthorpe, near Grantham, had suffered significant soil compaction, with ropes being hung from its branches for children to play.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
He wrapped his arms around the trunk of a firmly rooted tree, the wind rushing so fiercely it threatened to pull the whiskers from his face.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Amid mounting frustration, local residents have launched a class-action lawsuit, accusing the utility company Nipsco of failing to manage the trees which brought down the power lines in the storm.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 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
Several centuries-old trees have been lost, as the fire penetrated their root systems, Forestry England said.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
That was the moment the dog came bounding out at us from under the trees, barking wildly.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
The treed “Woodland Garden” to the west, with black tupelo and swamp white oaks, gives way to a “Perennial Meadow,” whose asters, purple beebalms and orange butterfly weed were chosen for their chromatic effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2025
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
The next time my dogs treed, they were across the river from us.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" 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
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
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
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
It's ten to one we shall have a partridge fluttering up and treeing here directly; I'll let the dogs out--get away, Flash! get away, Dan! you little rascals.
From Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago by Henry William Herbert
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