Sentence examples for killing saplings from inspiring English sources

Others, like the bittersweet, strangle the trees by girdling them in ever-tightening, ever-thickening circles -- damaging older trees and killing saplings, the new generation.

Certainly there was death all around me in the forest, palpably more death than in a suburb or a farm field — jaguars killing deer, deer killing saplings, wasps killing caterpillars, boas killing birds, and birds killing everything imaginable, according to their specialty.

It kills saplings before they can produce seeds, and so it keeps the species from reproducing.

"Currently when it infects a nursery for instance, it kills all of the saplings, by killing its host it ultimately leads to its own demise and itself dies out.

There is no cure for ash dieback, which spreads on the wind or by the importing of infected saplings, and is already killing many millions of trees across Europe.

Forest regeneration has been affected by fire through killing stem tissues of seedlings and saplings and heating the soil sufficiently to kill roots and seeds near the soil surface (Balch et al. 2013, Kennard et al. 2002).

The drought of 1976 killed 200,000 badly planted saplings.

The simple act of cutting out a spruce sapling that had elected to seed itself in a stone retaining wall started Fuller thinking about pruning as an art — the art, he said, of "killing without killing".

Saplings and shrubs that were still buried in early spring snow survived the blast that killed the taller trees poking up above them.

Photo: Rows of saplings on the beach at Keechankupam, India, commemorate the local victims of the December tsunami, which killed nearly 8,000 people in the region.

Ash dieback was first identified in Britain in 2012 and is thought to have arrived via imported saplings and by spores carried on the wind from Denmark, where the fungal disease has already killed 90% of its ash trees.