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Their dataset included 381 survey transects across 38 catchments and 499 rural properties, along with models charting the distributions of 160 bird species and 426 tree species.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
“He was an unbelievable class act. He had a tree issue. He had us out, and was so attentive and appreciative, it was just stunning to me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Researchers examined where individual plague genomes appeared on the bacterium's evolutionary tree and used that information to refine the likely dates of many samples.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
An orange tree is really two plants grafted into one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Clare brought his cup to his mouth, seeking the warmth of his tree sap tea.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
“I’ve seen millions of trees come through here, and every one has more or less perished.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Agromillora Nurseries is growing more than a million of the modified trees, and citrus growers have already signed up to buy them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
He watched for the wires, watched for the trees and set it down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The same laboratory has investigated pinene, a fragrant chemical naturally released by many trees.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
But he was already way ahead of us, and Marlene was by now no more than a shadowy shape moving through the trees, and then I lost sight of her altogether.
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
It turned out that his dogs had treed a raccoon in the backyard shortly after he’d left for work.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
When he treed a coon or possum in a persimmon tree or on a wild-grape vine, his voice would roll across the flatlands.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
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
After supper the guide cut some meat from the cat and fed it to the weary dogs, who had not succeeded in treeing a single lion, though they had come near doing so several times.
From The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon Or, The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch by Frank Gee Patchin
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