Right until the autumn of 2023, until the slaughter began:
There’s half an acre of wildwood behind our house in Oregon, full of blackberry brambles, mostly impassible.
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Sara Stridsberg
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
My footfall sets the tempo for this wildwood symphony.
Craving rolling hills, olive groves, and a glass of Chianti at dusk?
—
Angela Tafoya,
Vogue,
18 May 2026
Roughly nine hours west of Cairo, Siwa is known for salt pools, palm groves and the Oracle of Ammon, where Alexander the Great is said to have been declared divine.
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.
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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.
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Eric Toensmeier,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2020
The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.
—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
4 May 2026
His house sits across from what used to be a thick copse of woods.
For the bluebuck, the company is partnering with the nonprofit Advanced Conservation Strategies to navigate regulatory thickets in potential host countries where the animals could live on wild land with the proper vegetation and climate, in herds large enough to be genetically viable.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
30 Apr. 2026
This tree is notorious for being highly invasive, often cross-pollinating with other pear varieties, resulting in dense, thorny thickets that disrupt local ecosystems.
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