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Recent Examples of wildwoodRight until the autumn of 2023, until the slaughter began:
There’s half an acre of wildwood behind our house in Oregon, full of blackberry brambles, mostly impassible.—Sara Stridsberg
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025 My footfall sets the tempo for this wildwood symphony.—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2025
No visit to San Fran is complete without snapping a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge, so wake up with a stroll through the eucalyptus groves of the Presidio, the national park at the foot of the bridge.
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Becky Duffett,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 June 2026
Jones was found dead on July 5, 1980, in a grapefruit grove in Fontana, California, the Fontana Police Department and the San Bernardino County district attorney said in press releases.
The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.
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John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
4 May 2026
His house sits across from what used to be a thick copse of woods.
Amid a dense thicket of timber-and-metal stalls where secondhand retailers ordinarily hawked their wares, a runner of red-and-green astroturf cut a path toward a stage draped in the tricolor of the Ghanaian flag.
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Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
8 June 2026
While fewer regulations should be the long-term goal, providing a means for interested parties to better understand how to navigate the dense thicket of federal rules is long overdue.