woodlot

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Recent Examples of woodlot Human 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 For that matter, Walden is organized by thematic chapters, because there’s not much plot to Thoreau spending some time in a shack on Emerson’s woodlot. Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2021 See All Example Sentences for woodlot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for woodlot
Noun
  • Carmel-by-the-Sea and its gallery scene are a short drive south, while Pacific Grove offers Victorian architecture and monarch butterfly groves.
    Audrey T. Williams, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Outside are a kitchen, firepit, mature tree groves, ponds, a stream, meadows, and a heated driveway and sidewalks.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Owning physical gold as a disaster hedge Many investors favor gold during times of instability, as it has been considered currency for millennia.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
  • For investors who view silver primarily as a hedge or long-term store of value, that simplicity can be appealing.
    Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
Noun
  • Walk in forests where dragonflies buzz and orchids bloom in secret copses.
    Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Except for two copses of skyscrapers in which our financiers—and finances—go up and down, London remains a fairly horizontal city.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • This wonderful, hardy, and disease-resistant tree gradually develops into a beautiful understory thicket, providing habitat for wildlife.
    SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The plant in question actually consists of 70 Jurupa oak (Quercus palmeri) stem clusters, only three feet tall, that stand together as a flowering, non-acorn producing clonal colony in the form of a thicket, 82 feet long by 26 feet wide, estimated to be at least 13,000 years old.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 17 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • An additional 200 on-call contractors have been notified to be on stand-by for potential deployment to support DOT crews.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 24 Jan. 2026
  • It’s being said Texas — a university, mind you — will have a $40 million NIL payroll, which means this is Steve Sarkisian’s last stand.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026

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“Woodlot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woodlot. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.

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