An open canopy allows sunlight to filter down and reach normal-scale alders, maples, sword ferns and tiny, purple wild irises.

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It says more fire retardant species like oaks, aspens and alders will be placed on the forest boundaries.

BBC: Burnt forest rises from the ashes

In China, Japan and Korea it kills elms, horse chestnut, poplars, maples, alders, willows and a range of fruit trees.

BBC: By BBC Environment Correspondent Robert Pigott

The resort's oaks, alders, and Douglas firs, hung with rags of morning fog, surrounded us amphitheater style in Meadowood's tucked-away pocket canyon.

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Weaving through a thicket of tag alders, spraying as she goes.

NPR: Waging a One-Woman War Against Black Flies

Deep into the autumn, every package or can I open takes me back to conversations around the cookhouse's huge stone fireplace, to wind rustling through alders, and sun-spangled blue-green water, to the promise of adventure every morning.

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They must scale the near-vertical base by climbing rocks and tree roots like ladders -- or take a longer switchback trail -- and then begin an arduous hike uphill, sliding on mud and grasping at alders and shrubs to pull themselves up.

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