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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 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
Along the way, guests might watch kingfishers dart through palm groves, pause at the Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary, or step ashore to see traditional boat builders at work.
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Bailey Berg,
AFAR Media,
9 Sep. 2025
Wander through rose gardens, bamboo groves, an edible garden with more than 800 varieties of fruits and vegetables (nearly all of which is donated to local food banks), and a butterfly garden filled with species that attract other pollinators and hummingbirds.
Stocks have monetary and tax hedge characteristics.
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Brian Domitrovic,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
The catalyst for this a meeting with the school’s board — who look more like trustafarian hedge managers than social workers — where it is revealed that the grand but crumbling school building is going to be sold off at the end of the year.
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’s squatted on her heels within a tight copse of five or six stones leaning like dolmens, chin on chest as if an engrossing thing lies between her feet.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies.
Plush lawns and thickets of towering palms unite the various structures, while a demilune hot tub faces the water alongside a stone terrace that steps down to the estate’s private 250-plus-foot crescent beach.
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Mark David,
Robb Report,
2 Sep. 2025
The train crawls through one impressively lush landscape after another—around mountains; through valleys, jungles, forests, and tea plantations; and past thickets of palm trees waving gracefully in the humid breeze.
The private homes of top Nepalese political leaders—including the nation's president—were torched by demonstrators who took to the streets in a stand against a social media ban.
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Robert Birsel
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
Klein now had most of the funds needed to save a unique stand of ancient forest.
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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