This year, however, Mr. Leonard noted that many people were upgrading to the Fraser fir ($39.99) which he describes as "a bluer tree, a more rugged tree".
But since the region is cut off from the Greater Vancouver mainland by the rugged, tree-covered Coast Mountains, this picturesque coastline is only accessible by boat or seaplane, making it one of British Columbia's best-kept secrets, complete with kayaking, hiking, first-nation history and a bohemian culture.
Sunsets are exceptional and framed by rugged mountains, palm trees and shimmering water.
Thus, the print ads feature color images of fields and trees, rugged coastlines, a rain forest and mountains.
But in many places of the West -- either because the terrain is too rugged, or the trees too thin to make logging economically viable -- burning is the only way to reduce the density of small, dry trees and brush, foresters say.
She has laid paths of brick and slate, others of grass or wood chips bordered by long, rugged logs cut from trees that came down on the property.
Slowed by the rugged terrain, strewn with trees cut down by American axmen under Gen. Philip Schuyler, and needing horses, Burgoyne sent a force of Germans to collect them at Bennington, Vermont.
Once accessed by ferry and road from South Korea, the special administrative zone of Mount Kumgang is a rugged area of pine trees and waterfalls, soaring stony peaks and curving coastlines.
"Although we cannot have wild mountain gorges, for instance, on the park," Olmsted wrote, "we may have rugged ravines shaded with trees, and made picturesque with shrubs, the form and arrangement of which remind us of mountain scenery".
Between them lie miles of beautiful parkland, not the Jane Austen rolling variety but rugged hills black with trees, and clear blue skies streaked with fantastical clouds you can understand Indian artists seeing visions in.
