Sentence examples for dense spruce from inspiring English sources

The highest summits of the Oberharz are bare, but the lower slopes are laced with rivers and punctuated by dense spruce forests and moors.

We passed through frozen marshland, pristine with untracked snow, then a dense spruce forest, followed by a hardscrabble landscape, a cross between Arctic taiga and alpine tundra.

A big hotel set in a sweeping meadow ringed by dense spruce forests, the Hubert had all kinds of diversions for children, from ponies to skittles to a heated indoor pool.

The sun shone on the ridge close by, still bare after a fire the previous year, before it disappeared where the hills began and tall, dense spruce trees lined both sides of the road like a wall.

Today, Yllas (pronounced OO-lahs) is a winter paradise for cross-country skiers and other outdoor enthusiasts, with over 200 miles of ski tracks, dozens of wilderness huts (some with saunas) and uninterrupted stretches of fells, frozen wetlands and dense spruce and birch forests.

Both of these two patterns point to the same basic feature which is the inability of birch and pine to survive and grow under dense spruce main canopies.

Mastodon remains have been found from Alaska to Florida but are prevalent in the eastern United States, where the creatures inhabited dense, spruce-dominated forests.

In general, the vegetation community is essentially a classic WNA spruce-fir forest, which feature dense spruce-fir stands interspersed with meadows of grass, sagebrush, and other subalpine meadow taxa (Peet 1981).

With its deep, cold waters and isles of dense Blue Spruce, it promised to be a visual symphony in glorious technicolor.

We had just driven 20 miles on a dirt logging road, through a dense black-spruce forest to reach the lake.

Birch probably sunk into the ground faster because birch wood is denser than spruce wood (e.g. [47]).