According to archaeological excavations, an oak forest grew on the monticule. |
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Of particular note is the survival of the pagan fascination with the forest in the retention of Christmas tree even today. |
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From east to west the forest extended about five miles, from Askern on the east to Badsworth in the west. |
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Humidity and flying will worsen your sausage-like legs, so a trip to the Caribbean rain forest is not an ideal babymoon destination. |
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On the right, facing southward, rises Graylock, all beshagged with forest, and with headlong precipices of rock appearing among the black pines. |
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As top level feeders in the kelp forest, harbor seals enhance species diversity and productivity. |
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Hermia and Lysander are both met by Puck, who provides some comic relief in the play by confounding the four lovers in the forest. |
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Helena and Demetrius are both oblivious to the dark side of their love, totally unaware of what may have come of the events in the forest. |
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She is deep in the stacks of the university library, her carrel in a mauvely lit cave around which book spines rise like a forest. |
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Outraged, he follows her the next day and confronts her in the forest, where he attempts to force himself on her, despite her intense resistance. |
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Scott had a forest set built on the 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, with trees 60 feet high and trunks 30 feet in diameter. |
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In 1925 Milne, a Londoner, bought a country home a mile to the north of the forest at Cotchford Farm, near Hartfield. |
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Many locations in the stories can be linked to real places in and around the forest. |
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Shepard's sketches of pine trees and other forest scenes are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. |
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The Weald once was covered with forest, and its name, Old English in origin, signifies woodland. |
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Until the Late Middle Ages the forest was a notorious hiding place for bandits, highwaymen and outlaws. |
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Will thought of the shadowy miasmic forest they would all soon move into, a way of living that was an inversion of all their values. |
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The associated species of pine forest may cross frontiers and become new elements of the oak forests. |
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The area and its surrounding forest of Barnetts Demesne are mapped for orienteering. |
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Cities would be razed and the land allowed to return to forest or resettled by German colonists. |
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The soil is generally thin and poor, supporting scrub, tropical and forest vegetation. |
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Many moons had waxed and waned when on the afternoon of a lovely summer day a lusty broad-boned knight was riding through the forest of Sherwood. |
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Moonrats are a lowland forest species which feed primarily on worms and arthropods. |
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Compensation made to the legal residents of the forest was reasonably generous by comparison with other forests. |
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However, in many cases monoculture plantations of conifers have replaced the original mixed natural forest, because these grow quicker. |
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In temperate Europe, mixed forest with both broadleaf and coniferous trees dominate. |
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By the Middle Ages the bears' habitats were limited to more or less inaccessible mountains with sufficient forest cover. |
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In the very last stages of succession, trees can grow in, eventually turning the wetland into a forest. |
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Fire was a method of revitalizing pastureland and preventing forest regrowth. |
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Organizations such as SOS and Farm Africa are working with the federal government and local governments to create a system of forest management. |
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Podzol profile development is seen in most forest soils except where drainage is poor. |
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The country's flora and fauna live in a harsh landscape with forest accounting for less than one percent of the total area of the country. |
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During the 1980s the Swiss army fired off shells during an exercise and mistakenly burned a patch of forest inside Liechtenstein. |
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However, the French line was weak near the Ardennes forest, a region whose rough terrain they considered unlikely for the Germans to traverse. |
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The ceibo is the national floral emblem and national tree, while the quebracho colorado is the national forest tree. |
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This is a subtropical forest with native bamboos and a rich diversity of birds including toucans and hummingbirds. |
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The Levant became more arid and the forest vegetation retreated, to be replaced by steppe. |
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Columba asked the beggar to fetch him a stick from the forest, and the poor man did so. |
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The poor man then took the stake and put it into the forest, and the following day he checked it and found a stag had gotten impaled on it. |
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The forest is home to the endangered capercaillie and endemic Scottish crossbill. |
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The species is mainly found on poorer, sandy soils, rocky outcrops, peat bogs or close to the forest limit. |
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In the lowlands such forest structures developed over centuries by heavy exploitation, especially by the use of litter and grazing livestock. |
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In winter, the forest wildcat's main coat colour is fairly light gray, becoming richer along the back, and fading onto the flanks. |
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They usually do not form transverse rows or transverse stripes on the trunk, as is the case in the forest wildcat. |
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When hunting, the wildcat patrols forests and along forest boundaries and glades. |
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The voice of steppe wildcats differs little from the housecat's, while that of forest wildcats is similar, but coarser. |
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In the former Soviet Union, the fur of a forest wildcat usually fetched 50 kopecks, while that of a steppe wildcat fetched 60 kopecks. |
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The red squirrel is found in both coniferous forest and temperate broadleaf woodlands. |
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Scat found in Cwm Rheidol forest in 2007 was confirmed to be from a pine marten using DNA testing. |
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Two distinctive types of deciduous forest are found growing around the world. |
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These varying and regionally different ecological conditions produce distinctive forest plant communities in different regions. |
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Prior to this time the land that Canberra is found on was farming land, indigenous settlements, and forest. |
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Large livestock farms developed in the lowlands and appear to have contributed to economic growth and inspired increasing forest clearances. |
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They were followed by the 113th Brigade, who then leapfrogged ahead to achieve the division's second objective inside the forest. |
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Afterwards, the 114th Brigade attacked reaching the division's final objective, a road running through the forest, before nightfall. |
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It is mostly a woodland species, often living near the forest verge, but in mountainous regions, it occupies any part of the forest. |
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The bodies of salmon represent a transfer of nutrients from the ocean, rich in nitrogen, sulfur, carbon and phosphorus, to the forest ecosystem. |
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The leftovers the bears leave behind are considered important nutrients for the Canadian forest, such as the soil, trees, and plants. |
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The eastern and northern part of Chester consisted of heathland and forest. |
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There was a tremendous splash. And then everything was quiet. Until Billy heard a rustling in the forest behind him. Great. Now what? |
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In the Mabinogi story of the childhood of Lleu Llaw Gyffes, Gwydion makes a forest appear to be an invading force. |
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Francesco Bennozo argues that the poem represents ancient fears of the forest and its magical powers. |
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There they are aided by Tom Bombadil, a strange and merry fellow who lives with his wife Goldberry in the forest. |
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Due to climate change and rising sea levels, the forest was buried under layers of peat, sand and saltwater. |
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Furthermore, it is a common practice to forest used peat bogs instead of giving them a chance to renew. |
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The contrast between this dark forest and the brighter, moonlit ocean provides directionality for the females. |
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The marbled murrelet nests inland in old growth forest, seeking huge conifers with large branches to nest on. |
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We armed ourselves with the tools we would need to survive in the forest. |
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Greenpeace said in a press conference that the tree was originally from a logged area in the ancient forest which was supposed to be protected. |
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Cycads, similar to palm trees, were also common, as were ginkgos and Dicksoniaceous tree ferns in the forest. |
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North Pacific areas that do not have sea otters often turn into urchin barrens, with abundant sea urchins and no kelp forest. |
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Following an enormous reforestation plan Sardinia has become the Italian region with the largest forest extension. |
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Sardinia is the Italian region most affected by forest fires during the summer. |
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The climate warmed up gradually, favouring the growth of evergreen trees first and then deciduous forest which brought animals like aurochs. |
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Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural, with increasing forest coverage northward. |
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The northern coniferous forest zone begins north of the natural boundary of the oak. |
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To inhibit these problems human interventions, such as transfer of forest reproductive material, may be needed. |
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What was previously a kelp forest becomes an urchin barren that may last for years and this can have a profound effect on the food chain. |
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Certain locations such as the local patch of forest, wetland and coast may be favoured according to the location and season. |
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Two years earlier, Colbert had also promoted the introduction of the glass factory in the forest of Tourlaville. |
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Now and then a note from the bugle of some overjoyous youths as he entered the forest, brought a frown upon the brow of old Congo. |
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The largest amount of fund requests in the EU is being directed to forest fires, followed by floodings and earthquakes. |
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If so, he believed that any enemy force emerging from the forest would be vulnerable to a pincer attack and destroyed. |
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Overhead the woodpecker knocked insistently, and in the forest depths the partridge boom-boomed and strutted in virile glory. |
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The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest. |
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Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest. |
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Doghair stands result from too many pine trees regenerating following fire or clearcutting which opens the forest canopy. |
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The underfooting is mostly duff and sand, through alternating forest and meadow. |
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Heracty has been told that the flaxen dwarfess once had an adventure in the mock forest below the Palace. |
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At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp. |
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Squealing and still propelled by the kick, the calf scrabbled through the forest of legs and into the open. |
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Ah, I am full weary, lief, let me sleep, Forwandered and walked in this forest. |
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These same forest images appeared when he adapted his frottage technique to the roughly rubbed and scratched painting techniques of grattage. |
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The prehistoric settlers began clearing the forest, and established the first farming communities. |
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There, a few yards before them, was the high road from Risingham to Shoreby, lying, at this point, between two even walls of forest. |
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Muntjac deer, which escaped from deer parks at the turn of the twentieth century, are also found in the forest. |
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Remnants of native forest can be found scattered around the island, in particular in the Killarney National Park. |
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But what allowed forest clearance on a large scale was the polished stone axe above all other tools. |
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He selected a narrow gorge with a forest behind him, opening out into a wide plain. |
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The gorge protected the Roman flanks from attack, whilst the forest would impede approach from the rear. |
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The forest laws were introduced, leading to the setting aside of large sections of England as royal forest. |
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During the battle, the Gascon noble Jean de Grailly, captal de Buch led a mounted unit that was concealed in a forest. |
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The town of Wall stands today as it has stood for six hundred years, on a high jut of granite amidst a small forest woodland. |
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As with most of Europe, prehistoric Britain and Ireland were covered with forest and swamp. |
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However, relatively large areas of forest remain in east and north Scotland and in southeast England. |
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In more elevated areas, fire is a natural process in the landscape, and has produced extensive areas of longleaf pine forest and wet savannas. |
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Rockingham Forest was designated as a royal hunting forest by William the Conqueror, and was long used by English kings and queens. |
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The Heart of England Forest is the largest privately created forest in the world. |
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Following the Norman Conquest, much of the county was subject to the forest laws. |
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In the spring, however, thick carpets of bluebells can be found, flourishing before the beech leafs out and shades the forest floor. |
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The royal forest was granted a charter in the 13th century, however foresters who managed the area were identified in the Domesday Book. |
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The terms steward, warden and forester appear to be synonymous for the king's chief officer of the royal forest. |
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The house that he built at Simonsbath was the only one in the forest for 150 years. |
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Later, river deltas formed and the sediments deposited were colonised by swamps and rain forest. |
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A leafstorm cascaded upon the cavalry and the earth rent open to the angled winds. The forest canopy sprawled above them full of holes. |
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Bangladesh is home to much of the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest. |
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It also includes tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, a freshwater swamp forest and mixed deciduous forests. |
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Central Bangladesh includes the plainland Sal forest running along the districts of Gazipur, Tangail and Mymensingh. |
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He wrote that in New York City his building would have been lost in a forest of tall buildings, but that in Oklahaoma it stood alone. |
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A forest tree with small, mangolike, edible fruits that are very aromatic when dried. |
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The two would eventually cause great dishonour to the Angles when they ambushed Atisl in a forest as he walked alone and slew him. |
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The original Robin Hood ballads, which originate from the fifteenth century, set events in the medieval forest of Barnsdale. |
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At the northern most edge of the forest of Barnsdale, in the heart of the Went Valley, resides the village of Wentbridge. |
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One final locality in the forest of Barnsdale that is associated with Robin Hood is the village of Campsall. |
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Sherwood Forest is a royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, famous by its historic association with the legend of Robin Hood. |
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The forest that most people associate with Sherwood Forest is actually named Birklands and Bilhaugh. |
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He is allegedly buried in the Broceliande forest, near Paimpont in Brittany. |
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He is later found in the forest of Northumberland by a follower of Uther's disguised as an ugly man and tending a great herd of beasts. |
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Buck Island's uplands forest cover also includes frangipani, turpentine, Jamaican caper, manjack, Ginger Thomas, and water mampoo trees. |
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It typically comes in a variety of flavours ranging from forest berry to rhubarb and vanilla. |
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Almost immediately, on 22 June, he began as Deputy Forester in the royal forest of Petherton Park in North Petherton, Somerset. |
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In a parallel plot line, Oberon, king of the fairies, and Titania, his queen, have come to the forest outside Athens. |
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The robbers crept out of the forest and blindsided the traveller. |
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However, if this were true, all or most masting species in a forest would have to mast in synchrony to be effective against generalist herbivores. |
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The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing. |
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Near the forest edge stood three big military tents with scalloped air vents along their rooflines and bush pole supports tethered to big sharpened bush pegs. |
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From east of the Canadian Rocky Mountains to the mountains of Labrador, the golden eagle is found in small numbers in boreal forest peatlands and similar mixed woodland areas. |
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Take, for example, your friendly neighbourhood caveperson happily strolling through the forest carrying home the spoils of his successful hunting trip. |
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The place seems to have been fashioned as a dwelling for dryads and hamadryads, for nixies and pixies, and all the fabled spirits of forest and stream. |
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If you go into the forest, you'll come in for a nasty surprise. |
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I taste blood in my mouth while a Japanese gentleman in plastic snowshoes and a colorful Cosby sweater snaps photos of a landscape leveled by forest fires a decade ago. |
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About 42 percent of the municipality is forest and 52 percent farmland. |
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Some of the most dramatic improvements came in industries hardest hit by the recession, such as paper and forest products, rubber, airlines, and the auto industry. |
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As habitat specialists, they hardly use any other forest types. |
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These criteria are met best in old forest stands with spruce and pine, dense ground vegetation and local tree regrowth on dry slopes in southern to western expositions. |
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Merlins inhabit fairly open country, such as willow or birch scrub, shrubland, but also taiga forest, parks, grassland such as steppe and prairies, or moorland. |
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If the forest fire is not contained soon the town will be at risk! |
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The area around Lulworth Cove contains a fossil forest, and 71 different rock strata have been identified at Lyme Regis, each with its own species of ammonite. |
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From the foursquare royal tower on the city's eastern edge to the Dominican monastery of the Blackfriars in the west, its skyline was a forest of spires and belltowers. |
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The imitations of the gobblings and other sounds of wild turkeys, often brought this keen-eyed and ever watchful tenant of the forest within reach of the rifle. |
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The tree is selected by the Head Forester from Oslo's municipal forest and shipped, across the North Sea to the Port of Felixstowe, then by road to Trafalgar Square. |
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Today, much of the remaining native Caledonian Forest lies within the Cairngorms National Park and remnants of the forest remain at 84 locations across Scotland. |
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Another bird species which has had recolonisation attempts is the red kite which, as of 2012, have a population of approximately 90 in the dense forest areas near Grizedale. |
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The subspecies jordansi, reyi, cretensis, and the European and North African populations of lybica represent transitional forms between the forest and bay wildcat groups. |
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Over the centuries, deforestation for the shipbuilding, charcoal, forest glass, and brickmaking industries has left the Low Weald with only remnants of that woodland cover. |
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The forest wildcat's fur is fairly uniform in length throughout the body. |
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The white banner with the golden lilies of France has been unfurled. The oriflamme has been presented to the virginal bride who stands before the altar in the forest chapel. |
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The steppe wildcat's coat is lighter than the forest wildcat's, and never attains the level of density, length, or luxuriance as that of the forest wildcat, even in winter. |
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South Sudan's forest reserves also provided habitat for bongo, giant forest hogs, red river hogs, forest elephants, chimpanzees, and forest monkeys. |
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Reducing the amount of pollutants that reach a watershed can be achieved through the protection of its forest cover, reducing the amount of erosion leeching into a watershed. |
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The Scottish highlands is the only area in the British Isles to have the Taiga biome as it features concentrated populations of Scots pine forest. |
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William was known for his love of hunting, and he introduced the forest law into areas of the country, regulating who could hunt and what could be hunted. |
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The royal forest law had collapsed in large parts of the country. |
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Also known as the nemoral region, the southern deciduous forest zone is a part of a larger vegetation zone which also includes Denmark and large parts of Central Europe. |
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The largest forest complex in Poland is Lower Silesian Wilderness. |
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This led to a landscape which was long dominated by temperate rainforest, although human activity has since cleared the vast majority of forest cover. |
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It is predominantly of a brown forest soil type with some gleying, the lower parts being formed from raised beach sands and gravels derived from Old Red Sandstone and lavas. |
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Most forest land in Ireland is maintained by state forestation programmes. |
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Vast swaths of forest covered the land, which would eventually be laid down and become the coal beds characteristic of the Carboniferous stratigraphy evident today. |
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I stumbled blindly through the forest, branches whipping at my face. |
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The vast majority of Scania belongs to the European hardwood vegetation zone, a considerable part of which is now agricultural rather than the original forest. |
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The central and southwest provinces are practically devoid of any forest. |
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The main natural vegetation cover in Europe is mixed forest. |
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Probably 80 to 90 percent of Europe was once covered by forest. |
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Although large boar populations can play an important role in limiting forest growth, they are also useful in keeping pest populations such as June bugs under control. |
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In the Matter of Britain, the forest is the site of one of King Arthur's Twelve Battles, according to the Historia Brittonum, in which the battle is called Cat Coit Celidon. |
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In the Middle Welsh story Culhwch and Olwen, the main character Culhwch is the son of a king named Celyddon Wledig, who may or may not be related to the forest in name. |
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He set about converting the royal forest into agricultural land. |
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There are many kinds of natural beauty, from the expansiveness of a sky showing through a covering of multigreen forest, to the myriad forms of wondrous natural life. |
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This multistakeholder dialogue has reshaped the forest sector by increasing the participation and influence of civil society in forest-related decision-making processes. |
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Litterfall is provided for as long as the mature forest exists. |
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In most of the Punjab and Sindh, the Indus plains support tropical and subtropical dry and moist broadleaf forest as well as tropical and xeric shrublands. |
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It is home to the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world. |
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Though not named directly, the very name Kyledyr Wyllt is close to the two related notions of the forest of Celyddon being where people suffering madness or gwyllt hide. |
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The seventh battle was in the forest of Celidon, that is Cat Coit Celidon. |
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In the forest they would have collected nuts of species like the shagbark hickory, American hazel, and American chestnuts and fruits like wild grapes and black cherries. |
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It walked tamely beside them, before vanishing back into the forest. |
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Tropical and subtropical deciduous forest biomes have developed in response not to seasonal temperature variations but to seasonal rainfall patterns. |
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The leaves are often dark green in colour, which may help absorb a maximum of energy from weak sunshine at high latitudes or under forest canopy shade. |
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Later influences on planned community development in Canada were the exploitation of mineral and forest wealth, usually in remote locations of the vast country. |
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In it, the character Valentine is banished from Milan and driven out through the forest where he is approached by outlaws who, upon meeting him, desire him as their leader. |
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Vai has a palm beach and is the largest natural palm forest in Europe. |
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Significant areas where Moray has a larger than average share of national markets are in tourism, forest products, textiles and specialized metal working. |
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During the medieval age Wentbridge was sometimes locally referred to by the name of Barnsdale because it was the predominant settlement in the forest. |
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The programme also featured the remains of the submerged forest at Ynyslas, near Borth which is associated with the lost land of Cantre'r Gwaelod. |
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In the south, the Araucaria pine forest grows under temperate conditions. |
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The forest consists of pine, spruce, birch, and other species. |
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When the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086, the forest covered perhaps a quarter of Nottinghamshire in woodland and heath subject to the forest laws. |
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To maintain the country's comparative advantage in forest products, Finnish authorities moved to raise lumber output toward the country's ecological limits. |
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Much of Indonesia's deforestation is caused by forest clearing for the palm oil industry, which has cleared 18 million hectares of forest for palm oil expansion. |
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As a result, any point within the city is relatively close to the forest. |
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Until the latter part of the 20th century when large areas were planted in conifers, this level profile was rendered still more striking by the almost total absence of forest. |
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Species listed as possible pests or nonpests might qualify as temporary pest species during nuu khii outbreaks where these originate in forest habitats. |
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Archaeological evidence from California's Channel Islands confirms that islanders were harvesting kelp forest shellfish and fish beginning as much as 12,000 years ago. |
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Hermia and Lysander have escaped to the same forest in hopes of eloping. |
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Much of the remains of this forest are found within the national park. |
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Equatorial climate, Amazonian equatorial forest in French Guiana. |
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He also suggested that the lovers' identities, which are blurred and lost in the forest, recall the unstable identities of the actors who constantly change roles. |
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The shell was removed and replaced by a forest planted in tons of dirt hauled in especially for the event, and a trestle was constructed from the hills to the stage. |
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