Also prune branches growing toward the ground, high branches growing straight up and shoots growing from the base of the tree.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

The white heron smoothed its feathers and called to its mate, sitting on their nest in a nearby tree.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Then a sudden and violent wind began to shake the tree and its leaves kept coming down all around me.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

He explains that as the water freezes, it produces heat,and the ice forms a protective blanket around the tree.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

With the furs on his back, and his gun in his arms, he stepped out on the fallen tree.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

One of the rarest species of mangrove tree grows in just a few places in East Asia and India.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Just as I thought that both the tree and I were going to fall, a hand touched me.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

The only evidence was cut into a tree and a fence: the letters C-R-O and the word Croatoan,C-R-O-A-T-O-A-N.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

He and his team studied tree mass, dead wood and soil carbon in twenty-five mangrove ecosystems in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

VOA: special.2011.05.10

The pine tree's sticky sap made her fingers feel stiff and clumsy as she climbed higher and higher.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

The findings suggest that things like land rights, markets or government policies can influence tree planting and protection.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

He was safe. He sat under the tree and thought of the old men in Fairbanks.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

In addition,the study noted tree-planting programs in countries such as China, India,Vietnam and the United States.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

But he chose a large spruce tree to land in near the fire, and climbed down.

VOA: special.2009.11.24