After an avalanche hit, the big trees stayed on top of debris, while little trees were buried.
These low-intensity fires did little damage to the big Ponderosa pine trees that dominated western forests.
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He grinned, looking at the two bent backs and the big packs ahead of him moving through the trees.
The council bid for a grant from the Big Tree Plant Fund and worked with Trees for Life nursery to grow the trees.
The storm system swatted down power lines and uprooted trees, flicked big rigs on their sides and yanked off part of the terminal roof at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport, where some 1, 500 area residents had taken shelter in a tunnel.
Builders have been uprooting and moving big trees since at least the 1920s, when William Randolph Hearst had cypresses trucked in from Paso Robles, Calif.
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But then there were fewer dogs to bark at me as I passed under the trees, and, where the dog was big, so was the dog door, and I could crawl in and avail myself of the canned and packaged foods in kitchen pantries.
He had a little statue of Aubie on his desk. (Laughter.) He had his son, Ethan -- he and Ethan would roll the trees in front of the yard after a big win. (Laughter.) So this is a big day for him.
Visitors enter through giant "royal" gates and stroll along an avenue lined with white birch trees before arriving at the 38-foot-tall Big Ben.
The stark, monumental-looking set for "Dialogues, " which was designed by David Reppa, was a slap in the face to old-fashioned operagoers who preferred big, fancy sets with imitation trees.
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Garcia heard a big cheer as he swung, and his ball sailed well to the right under some trees, making it nearly impossible to get onto the green.
"The last time we had a big snowstorm across the East Coast was back in October, " when fall foliage was still on the trees, said CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano.
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