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Recent Examples of woodlotFor example, forested areas and woodlots with acorns can concentrate deer.—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023 Three mosquitoes carrying the parasite that causes malaria were collected from the same woodlot, Sarasota County Mosquito Management Services told CBS News in a statement.—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 29 June 2023 In recent years, Ms. Young has been approached by private woodlot owners looking for guidance.—Moira Donovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2022 For the second time in the past 15 years, Colleen Watson watched this summer as beavers flooded a 100-acre woodlot in the Atlantic province of New Brunswick that her grandfather, a blacksmith, took as payment from a customer during the Great Depression.—New York Times, 20 Nov. 2021 See all Example Sentences for woodlot
Anagha Nair The rhythm of the harvest must go on for farmers on Lebanon’s ancient olive groves, despite the interruptions of bombs falling on all sides.
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC News,
26 Nov. 2024
The intimate property has 16 rooms and three suites, with grounds that include an olive grove and the Fiermonte Museum, with art from the family collection (an ancestor, Antonia Fiermonte, was a prominent artist and muse to sculptors René Letourneur and Jacques Zwobada).
The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2021
Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.
The best part of the farm itself was a dirt track that led from the back of the house to the edge of the property to a creek that ran swiftly through a dense thicket of trees.
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
26 Nov. 2024
Gradually forests and bogs give way to more salt-tolerant thickets.
During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.
Michael Dirda,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2023
Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.
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