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Recent Examples of woodlotThat success has come despite fears among some in the settlement that the authorities, wanting to protect mature woodlots, one day might force the refugees to go back home.—Rodney Muhumuza, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2024 Though smaller than most at 30 acres, Frost’s farm was typical of New England at the time, having a clapboard house, shed, barn and garden near the road, and fields, pastures, an orchard and a woodlot, all graced by low stone walls.—Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023 These walls are the binding threads of a nearly unbroken patchwork quilt of what had once been fields, pastures, woodlots and meadows.—Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023 For example, forested areas and woodlots with acorns can concentrate deer.—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023 See All Example Sentences for woodlot
The shift in setting, from the States to Sicily, should yield evocative and, at least for a video game, new sights: The story itself begins in the Sicilian sulfur mines before whisking players through a rural landscape of pretty villages and aromatic lemon groves.
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Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
The 8-mile round-trip hike crosses bridges over creeks and winds through aspen groves, alpine meadows, and past smaller cascades before reaching the multi-tiered waterfall in Eagles Nest Wilderness.
The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.
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Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2021
Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.
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Eric Toensmeier,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2020
The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
23 Mar. 2025
Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.
On Rikers, a thicket of laws and lore, regulations and culture bind and barnacle decision-making.
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Elizabeth Glazer,
New York Daily News,
18 May 2025
Fourteen years of civil war, and a thicket of financial restrictions imposed by the U.S. government and others, have crippled Syria, physically and economically.
There’s a definite purity-politics flavor to any suggestion that people should take a moral stand and leave a social network, but also a pretty airtight case to be made for boycotting it.
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Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
23 May 2025
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) recently took a public stand on government actions affecting research funding and healthcare access.
During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.
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Michael Dirda,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2023
Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.
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