If you want to see really tall trees, go to Washington State. Higher Than or Taller Than? "Rachel is higher than Craig" means that Rachel's location is above Craig's. For example, it could mean that Rachel's height on a mountain is greater than Craig's (i.e., she has climbed to...
b.Having considerable height, especially in relation to width; lofty:tall trees. 2.Having a specified height:a plant three feet tall. 3.InformalFanciful or exaggerated; boastful:tall tales of heroic exploits. 4.Impressively great or difficult:a tall order to fill. ...
Cyclists were overheating and stopping along roadsides, under shaded trees or beside tree lined fence rows. I realized by the time we had traveled a mere 7 miles past SAG stop #2 that we would not make it to #3 without stopping. We were also in the area around Indianapolis where our St...
Trees in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and The University of Tennessee Arboretum Oak forests dominate the forested landscape of Tennessee. These forests are vital to the economic and environmental health of the state. Northern red oak (NRO) trees, Quercus rubra L., are crucial ...
It represents the endpoint of several gradients: age, biomass (890 Mg ha~(-1)), structural complexity (two-sided leaf area index = 7-18, tree tops at 65 m, and 1,740 trees ha~(-1)). Mean above-ground biomass in other northwest forests is about 150 Mg ha~(-1).Trevor Newton...
Two rust-eaten pick-up trucks, one painted blue and the other yellow, sat abandoned in the front yard behind a cyclone fence. Pots of flowers decorated the fenders while the beds overflowed with vines and small flowering trees. Fifty or more chickens strutted and pecked around the yard, giv...
meeting and pick us up didn’t much matter. It made us more anxious to get outside and explore. Bored, we wandered the entire airport and gazed outside the windows to waiting palm trees and the promise of warm California sun, wondering what treasures lay beyond the panes of window glass...
Sure, he showed flashes of game in his private Chicago workout last week for a couple hundred of his closest critics, but when you stack him up with the other tallest of trees who have sprouted throughout the league recently, you get a sense of the, uh, bigger picture: Yao Ming THE...
After a globe-spanning struggle to return, I was suddenly back in Golden Gate Park. But it had changed completely, the gardens and towering eucalyptus trees replaced by strip malls, fast food joints, and other plagues. I was hopelessly forlorn as the dawn approached and I could not find my...
What relates these projects to Rockefeller Center is the interest in creating an attractive environment by a limited development of space rights and the introduction of fountains, shrubs, trees and flowers in the resulting open areas. This category would include the Seagram Building, of 1956-57, ...