Sentence examples for fallen trunks from inspiring English sources

We sampled fallen trunks and snags created by known retention-tree deaths during the first post-harvest decade on 46 cut areas in Estonia, hemiboreal Europe.

Just as if this were a living forest, they have stopped along the route to identify individual leaves or study fallen trunks.

Secondary forests and edges of fragments showed differences in litter depth, fallen trunks and number of pioneer trees, and secondary forests were significantly different from fragment interiors in the number of standing dead trees and the number of pioneer trees.

Forest crews managed to contain the fire, but the woods were destroyed, their ruins like a blasted, ghosted battlefield, stumps and blackened fallen trunks releasing swirls of smoke into winter.

Although aerial feeders, most of the true nightjars roost on the ground, rocks, or fallen trunks, but some prefer horizontal branches of trees, in which case they usually perch lengthwise along the branch.

MIAMI — After the wind and rain had passed, and the Florida sun had begun shining again, Bruce Mawry emerged from his Miami Beach home to find a grisly scene of fallen trunks, scattered fronds and rolling coconuts.

Near the ancient stepping stones that allow a crossing to the south bank in all but times of flood I sat on a rotting fallen trunk to marvel at the mature bird cherry, now in full, sweet-scented bloom, that marks the place of descent to the crossing point.

At the Jimal sites in particular B. aegyptiaca individuals tended to grow in rows, as if appearing from a root or fallen trunk beneath.

Just before the tree shatters the van's rear window, Jeff Kessler '15 pulls a student shuttle driver away from the falling trunk.

(Trunk shows for spring clothing begin in October and extend through February; fall trunk shows start in April and continue through the summer.) While many retailers maintain that trunk shows are profitable because there is a guaranteed taker for clothes at full price, that is not always the case.

I try to lift off the ear defenders when a tree is about to go because the sound of a falling trunk is awesome: the quiet creak giving way to a thunderous rip and a final thump as a few tonnes of timber smack on to the rocky ground.