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Recent Examples of woodlotHuman activity has shaped the animals’ natural habitat, which covers a wide geographic range and many ecosystems, from low elevation forests to small woodlots, fields and pastures.—USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024 That 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 See All Example Sentences for woodlot
Several rural areas of the county, former ranches and citrus groves, are currently in the process of selling and are being prepared for development.
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James Wilkins,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2025
Moving further north Florida is one of the only places the subtropical fruit grows in the United States and groves cover more than 1000 acres across the state, most of them in the southern tip of the state.
That’s in part because major pro-Israel political donors in New York are considering how best to keep Mamdani from winning the general election in November — chief among them hedge funder Bill Ackman.
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Ron Kampeas,
Sun Sentinel,
2 July 2025
And since the hedge funder is planning on loaning his copies of the Thirteen Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation to a U.S. institution, the public will be able to see the rare pieces for themselves soon enough.
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
She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.
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Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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.
Fabrice Pothier, then NATO’s director of policy planning, told me that officials confronted a thicket of bureaucracy and regulations governing the movement of military equipment across European borders.
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Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
Years of research poke holes in that idea, and buyers navigating a thicket of add-on dealer costs would disagree.
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Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 May 2025
During peach season, purchase fruits from local growers at a farm stand or farmers' market.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
28 June 2025
In-person ordering is available for guests who can’t order on their cell phones, but most guests will order online at some walk-up stands and most sit-down restaurants.
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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