conifer
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"The impressive western conifer seed bug is here as is the box bug," she added.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
It has more than 550 miles of hiking trails, including several treks where you can find yourself in solitude in dense conifer forests with sweeping mountain views.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 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
Over every roof and path hung the boughs of the hemmens, the commonest tree of Winter, a stout conifer with thick pale-scarlet needles.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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
"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
Despite early fears, most of the park’s redwoods survived, Fourt said, noting that they can resprout not only from their base and branches but also from their trunks — something most conifers can’t do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
Better yet, the flat roof of the next garden's oil tank was just a foot below me, and screened by coal-blue conifers.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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