How to Use black spruce in a Sentence

black spruce

noun

• Many think that planting black spruce is still the way to go.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Oct. 2019
• The wood, which against all odds survived the last ice age, is likely black spruce.
  — Erin Adler, Star Tribune, 19 May 2021
• And, of course, lichens are always prolific on the tundra and in black spruce forests.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2021
• Prior to the 2004 fire season, black spruce was the dominant tree in more than half of the forest area that burned.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2021
• One hundred miles out from anywhere, a narrow cut in the black spruce appeared.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
• The fire is burning in higher alpine areas where the fuel is grass and lichen, rather than highly flammable stands of black spruce and other trees.
  — Jeff Parrott, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2019
• The fire was started by lightning on May 31 and has continued to burn through tundra, dry grasses, brush and black spruce.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2022
• Caribou in the Delta herd and Macomb herd, which utilize lichen in the black spruce forests, have been forced to move to areas with lesser-quality feed.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
• Taiga, as this forest is called, is composed of dense black spruce forests and a mosaic of other forest trees.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
• As the dominant conifer in Alaska over the past 7,000 years, black spruce have adapted to the flames; their cones are clustered at the very top of the tree and open after a fire to shed seeds, which help to reestablish the ecosystem.
  — Randi Jandt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
• Instead of trekking into the forests of Canada, a birder can fly into the Duluth airport and within an hour be in the old-growth tamarack and black spruce bogs, which the owls favor.
  — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
• The burning is an ecological benefit for the area, Casey said, because the black spruce trees there are part of a fire-dependent ecosystem.
  — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2019
• Peatlands support fewer and smaller black spruce trees.
  — Ian Willms, National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2019
• Eucalyptus is Lohman’s shower go-to, but laurel leaf, black spruce, and pine can also contain your cough.
  — Allison Young, Good Housekeeping, 20 Oct. 2017
• The fire began Friday afternoon when lightning sparked flames which began to spread among mostly black spruce trees, Harrel said.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2020
• Edited by Dava Sobel Absent of taproot, the black spruce leans madly where permafrost slumps into thermokarst.
  — Jessica Goodfellow, Scientific American, 1 June 2020
• Over the next several days, their progress is marked by the phantasmic puffs of white powder that rise from the valley’s black spruce, dust kicked up as the RAB jackhammers into the ground and busts up everything in its path.
  — Genesee Keevil, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2018
• The fires are scorching forested areas dominated by black spruce.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2019
• The trail wanders up and down above timberline for several miles before dropping back into black spruce thickets on its way to the lonesome outpost at Mile 101 on the Steese Highway.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Oct. 2020
• Interior Alaska's boreal zone is dominated by black spruce: small, slow-growing trees that form dense stands.
  — Randi Jandt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
• Up to 40 percent of Alaska is boreal forest, populated mostly by highly flammable black spruce.
  — Mark Jenkins, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Instead, thinning and pruning hazard fuels such as dead brush and black spruce according to firewise guidelines can be quite effective in reducing risk for several years.
  — Author: Alison York, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
• Another is the vegetation in those forests — particularly black spruce trees.
  — Lilly Nguyen, Daily Pilot, 9 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024