The lush pine forest that covered every inch of these pristine mountains had been cleared here.
Mr. SNYDER: Three-thousand-foot level of the western Sierra Nevada pine forest, facing west.
Bending under the weight of the packs, sweating, they climbed steadily in the pine forest that covered the mountainside.
The infestation is gathering pace: foresters fear that by 2013 four-fifths of British Columbia's central-southern pine forest will be gone.
The Indian soldiers were air dropped by an army helicopter into a pine forest near the Pirpanchal range of mountains, police said.
As we trudged along, our surroundings changed from barren, stony outcroppings to dry pine forest to beech tree clusters to mucky, grassy, deciduous bogs.
Then it was tundra, then birch forest, then pine forest, then alder, linden, elm and ash, then most recently oak, but beech was coming.
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Driving the scenic and sparsely trafficked Hwy 40, you enter blankets of pine forest interspersed with craggy peaks and the odd moose in the verge.
One of those surprises came during a visit to Eglin Air Force Base on the Florida panhandle, where he went to see the old-growth long-leaf pine forest.
To be fair, the groups of six tents do open up directly to nature, with a view of the Blackfoot river, the pine forest or the banks of Elk Creek.
In 1820, German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss proposed cutting an enormous right triangle into the Siberian pine forest, creating a monument to the Pythagorean theorem big enough to see from outer space.
Founded in the early 1970s by oil and gas billionaire George Mitchell, The Woodlands has become a 28, 000-acre master planned community carved out of the pine forest to become home to 200, 000.
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There was a tall lodgepole pine forest, very dark, high canopy on one side, and on the other side, a meadow with a few trees and some yarrow and some fireweed, some of the flowers that grow here.
Reforesting Scotland, a pressure group which wants to recreate the native pine forest that used to cover the moorlands, says many more jobs could be provided by replacing the heather with a mixture of forestry, small-scale agriculture and wildlife tourism.
The 400, 000-acre Ocala National Forest is a tangle of springs, sand-pine scrub and subtropical forest that is home to raccoons, flying squirrels, otters and black bears, as well as many species of bird.
The site is a panoramic ground on the edge of the Jerusalem Forest of pine and cypress trees.
In the Jemez, for example, it could transform much of the ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forest into shrub land.
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He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees.
Deep in a boreal forest of birch and pine just outside Karasjok, Sven Engholm is a man who has found his place in life, far from the world and its noise.
When Adams arrived in town, the school site was a dense forest of sweet gum and pine trees.
Halfway through comes tropical forest that looks eerily similar to the pine copses of Tahoe.
The sprawling lake, estimated at being two thirds the area of Sydney Harbour, is framed by the Danbulla Forest, a green blanket of rainforest, pine and scrub that offers refuge to kangaroos, bird colonies and platypus.
Crowned by saw tooth peaks, mantled in forest cloaks of green oak, chestnut and pine, and shot through with rushing rivers and tumbling cascades, Corsica is one of the most dramatic, diverse and downright gorgeous islands in the Mediterranean.
The actual vineyard is located in the Yatir Forest underneath the Judean hills, the biggest planted forest in Israel, where you will find carob, pistachio and pine trees.
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