| If you allow them to gain a roothold, future battles will be fought to contain them. |
| This will allow young native trees such as oak, ash or beech to reclaim a roothold in the woods. |
| Gnarled, stunted cedars and gray, twisted cypress clung for a roothold to these barren ledges. |
| No stranger to extremes, whitebarks inhabit high-altitude environments near timberline, where other tree species find it difficult to establish a roothold. |
| A few spindly trees cling to the sides of the gorge, but their roothold on the tiny patches of soil gathered in cracks is precarious. |
| Where the peak leaned to the valley, the trunk of a giant pine jutted forth slantingly from a roothold a little below the summit. |
