| 单词 | treeless |
| 例句 | Now Tom Yew's in a cemetery on a treeless hill on a bunch of islands we'd never even heard of last January. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The path led them up and around the base of a great green hill, round and treeless, the hill that Ged had seen from the ship as they entered the charmed waters of Roke Island. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He stood alone in a treeless field, nothing but stumps and dead limbs scattered around him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Or maybe it stalks treeless and open places, lit with an oily sun. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The dry, scorched plains around Meereen were flat and bare and treeless for long leagues, but the Yunkish ships had brought lumber and hides up from the south, enough to raise six huge trebuchets. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It ran in the right direction anyway, over flat, almost treeless land. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was one of a long row of houses that stretched down treeless streets. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Here there is only gray rock, cold and treeless as a bad dream. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z The Nevinses’ house had been square and white and dust- less, just like every other square, white, dusdess house in the treeless development where they had lived. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Virtually treeless, it features frosted picture-book mountains that are interspersed with rugged, lava-strewn terrain, giving the landscape an unnatural, almost lunar appearance: American astronauts trained there before their voyages to the moon. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There was a wide treeless space before them, running in a great circle and bending away on either hand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z As they toured Cange in the priest’s pickup, the treeless, dusty landscape struck Farmer as “amazingly, biblically dry and barren.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I can see the whole mall and a bit of the world beyond: the frantic pinball machines, the pink billows of cotton candy, the vast and treeless parking lot. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z That morning, as Herbert passed the crumbling brick tenement buildings and treeless courtyards, he watched out for Reds. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Upon the west to their right the land was treeless also, but it was flat, and in many places green with wide plains of grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z On the other was a dirt and gravel road that led through an open field, treeless, with high yellow grass. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I waited outside for a few minutes on the treeless road, wondering whether I should go in. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Before them, but some distance off, there stood a green hill-top, treeless, rising like a bald head out of the encircling wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z One can guess that their boats were not made of wood, because they had long lived on the almost treeless plains of Beringia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Jackson Park was one square mile of desolation, mostly treeless, save for pockets of various kinds of oak—burr, pin, black, and scarlet—rising from a tangled undergrowth of elder, wild plum, and willow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Or consider the grassy balds—treeless, meadowy expanses of mountaintop, up to 250 acres in extent, which are quite unique to the southern Appalachians. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The treeless panorama ahead was among the most breathtaking sights in the state, even on a darkish night like this. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ged saw a low coast lashed by rainy wind, a grey town crouching behind the long stone breakwaters that made its harbor, and behind the town treeless hills under a snow-darkened sky. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z In this baked, desolate, treeless landscape, scattered with small tin-roofed huts and dusty walking paths, we drove through a gate and onto smooth pavement. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The streetlights shone on the treeless stretches of asphalt and cement and continuous old slate roofs. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As once again the day wore to its end they came to long treeless slopes, where the land rose, swelling up towards a line of low humpbacked downs ahead. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The fence surrounded a treeless yard, and there was a large brown car parked in the garage. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Karl’s face was a chapped red mask as he drove, steady on, through the flat, treeless country. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The land was flat and treeless and there seemed to be no colour in it at all. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This corner of southwestern Idaho is unrelentingly poor and plain, with vast stretches of empty roads and treeless farmland, intersected by equally vast swatches of fast-food franchises and car dealerships. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They waded the stream, and hurried over a wide open space, rush-grown and treeless, on the further side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Ahead there loomed now against the dusky sky the bleak and treeless backs of the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z After a little while he turned suddenly, and choosing a place where the banks were lower, he waded the river, and then led them away due south into a flat land, treeless and wide. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z So Willard had orders to fly up Deerhair Canyon toward the wide open meadows and rocky, treeless slopes around the Little Baldy Bear Lakes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z GOLDENDALE, Klickitat County — The big winds that rake this nearly treeless channel of the Columbia River Gorge lightened somewhat last weekend. Funding is blowing in wind at remote Maryhill Museum 2012-05-20T03:55:11Z I hated New York — the treeless streets, the aggressive strangers — but I was proud of the life we’d built together. The kiss that ended my engagement 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z On the southern end of the Lost Coast Trail-North, Shelter Cove is scattered across a largely treeless peninsula that protects the town’s namesake, a south-facing cove. On California’s Lost Coast: Sea Lions, Surf and Squiggly Roads 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Instead, I passed along the treeless and depressing Main Street and dozens of bare storefronts. Exploring Tule Lake, an Austere Land With a Complex History 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Advertisement In the morning we walked down into a wide, treeless valley. A Three-Day Trek in the Highlands of Myanmar 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Scoured long ago by retreating glaciers, this region is so flat and treeless that old-timers say if a dog runs away, it’s still possible to see it three days later. 10 of Canada's best lesser-known national parks 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Here, lingering intermediate runs and a few expert runs stripe the mountain’s broad, nearly treeless face. Skiing the Spanish Pyrenees 2012-01-20T20:30:20Z It's as if he, like most people, is uncomfortable with vast treeless country with few settlements or "attractions." A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z We marveled at the vast, treeless expanse over which volcanic mountains loomed. An airline’s brilliant marketing campaign has made Iceland a must-see stopover 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The shoreline was out of sight, hidden by a high ridge of dunes, and the relatively flat, utterly treeless plains surrounding us had the same lonesome beauty as the remote backcountry of West Texas. On Padre in Texas, Soft Sand, Shells and Seclusion 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Under four miles, the easy trail rings a highland lake that reflects the steep and treeless mountains surrounding it. 36 Hours in Queenstown, New Zealand 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Even in the sunshine, with the giant container ships plying the Thames, this is recognizably Pip’s marsh country: flat, treeless, glinting with ribbons of water — a halfway place that is marine as much as terrestrial. Pip and Me: A Journey Into the World of ‘Great Expectations’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z These are empty urban landscapes, a treeless world of hollow-eyed brick shells and empty stoops that lead to empty streets. A young photographer made the Baltimore Uprising unforgettable 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Later, the displaced herdsmen built thatched huts around the tall walls of my farm, their cattle roaming and grazing in the dry, treeless fields. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z Mandas is a stony little place, with one treeless main street. Lawrence of Sardinia 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Vent flames from natural gas wells — a signature feature of the new industry turning western North Dakota inside out — dotted the vast, treeless landscape like fireflies. Tales of a 60-year-old hitchhiker 2013-02-27T01:00:00Z The heat, stoked in a treeless desert where rising warm air is trapped by surrounding mountains and recirculates like a convection oven, seemed like a distant legend to our wool-hatted and thermal-clad crowd. It’s the Cool Season in Death Valley 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z The wide, treeless bowls — set in the Tolkien-esque beauty of Arthur’s Pass National Park — are perfect for novices and intermediates. 12 Months of Skiing, From Chile to China 2012-12-07T17:07:45Z The block is "uninviting", "treeless", shadowy; the buzzer is broken; the sounds of gunfire echo in the night; a "black doberman the size of a wolf" prowls nearby. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z A few months ago, this treeless clearing in the Missouri River flood plain was empty. Dakota pipeline protesters confront the “black snake”: “We’re living by the fire” 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Shetland is almost entirely treeless, with a terrain that veers mainly between the barren and the bleak, but is adorably dotted with the tiny ponies that take their name from the place. On the Nordic Trail in Scotland 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z What many see as a wild, natural landscape – the treeless mountains – is engineered by deer, whose grazing of tasty young shoots prevents old trees being replaced by young. Rewilding: How Trees for Life are renewing the Highlands 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z An hour or so from Shannon we turned off the main road onto a narrow, winding strip of pavement through the mostly treeless coastal range. Chasing Waves on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The serious hoarders of capital, the top one-third of 1 percent or so, are a tiny and insulated group who wouldn’t be caught dead in some treeless gated community in the Dallas-Fort Worth exurbs. The New Gilded Age: A bigger con job than the first one 2014-04-26T16:30:00Z In Jasper National Park in Alberta, Marmot Basin is adding an area called Tres Hombres, a north-facing, treeless and very steep slope of about 54 acres. At Smaller (and Affordable) Ski Resorts, New Lodges, Lifts and Runs 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z To the west stand the rugged, treeless basins and knife-edge spine of Mount Katahdin. Touring Maine’s Newest — and Largest — Parcel of Federal Land 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Our drive to Eunice the next morning took us through the heart of the Cajun prairie, along a sinuous, treeless stretch of road hemmed by vast meadows of switchgrass and spring wildflowers. Explorer: In Cajun Country, in Search of the Boucherie 2011-06-03T18:55:00Z Historically, the park preserves the region’s 150-year-old cattle-ranching legacy, with dairy operations still active today on the treeless plain above the sea. Water, Sand and Plenty of Elbow Room on 8 Wild, Protected Coastlines 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z THE drive into Bentonville, Ark., from the region’s airport provides vistas of cattle pastures and open fields that occasionally give way to lonely, treeless subdivisions, which in turn lead to commercial strips. Heads Up: Art Meets Leisure in Bentonville, Arkansas 2011-12-01T20:14:22Z I was in Oklahoma, playing in our tidy, treeless front yard in a bare suburban neighborhood. Motherlode: Memories of a Father's Rage 2011-06-15T17:58:13Z Lack of snow is rarely a problem, and the terrain at both ski areas is treeless, thanks to past eruptions, with long, wide runs, some of which follow former lava flows. 12 Months of Skiing, From Chile to China 2012-12-07T17:07:45Z It encompasses treeless mountains, quaint villages and sheep farms, a combination of cultivated and wild land ideal for the food and foraging cottage industry that has sprung up to advise nature lovers with adventurous palates. Heads Up: Foraging in the Wilds of Wales 2012-07-06T16:31:28Z Then it climbs more steeply up along a creek leading to the treeless and Lilliputian plant landscape of the 12,650-foot-high Abyss Lake. Leaf Peeping Is Not Canceled: 6 Drives and Hikes to Try This Fall 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Ahead, treeless desiccation beneath the big, blue sky. A father-son road trip in Death Valley: One muscle car, one teenager and the American West 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z To our left, rugged slopes and thinning patches of conifers rise to treeless, wind-scoured peaks . In Colorado, three generations achieve a peaceful family vacation at high elevation 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z One might assume, for instance, that daytime temperatures would be highest in relatively dense and treeless neighborhoods like Mahal, which sits near the city’s center. Ferociously hot weather could make some cities unlivable. Low-tech solutions can help 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z On Monday, an incoming typhoon which turned into a tropical storm forced organisers to call quits and evacuate all participants from the Saemangeum area- a vast, treeless flatland. World Scout Jamboree: How troubles plagued South Korea's operation 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Concerns had been raised beforehand about having such large numbers of young people in a vast, treeless area lacking protection from the summer heat. South Korea begins evacuating thousands of global Scouts from its coast as a tropical storm nears 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Long before the event started, critics raised concerns about bringing such large numbers of young people to a vast, treeless area lacking protection from the summer heat. Tens of thousands of young Scouts to evacuate world jamboree in South Korea as tropical storm looms 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Long before the event’s start, critics raised concerns about bringing that many young people to a vast, treeless area lacking protection from the summer heat. South Korea presses on with World Scout Jamboree as heat forces thousands to leave early 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z Long before the start of the event, critics had raised concerns about bringing that many young people to a vast, treeless area lacking protection from the summer heat. British scouts to leave South Korean Jamboree site after 100 participants suffer heat ailments 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z There had been concerns about holding the Jamboree in a vast, treeless area lacking refuge from the heat. 83 attendees at the World Scout Jamboree treated for heat-related illnesses in South Korea 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Shrouded in the mists of cold, wet, nearly treeless tropical highlands called páramos, they evoke the Spanish monks for which they are named. Mauricio Diazgranados Is a Botanist in a Hurry 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z As the temperatures soared past 100 this week, Fields pointed at a near treeless dirt lot where at least half a dozen people lived under slivers of shade. When a telephone pole’s worth of shade or straw hat is the only relief from deadly heat 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z But Earth MRI is also planning hyperspectral surveys that will scan the treeless, arid surface for pay dirt. Major U.S. geological survey aims to uncover minerals critical for batteries and microchips 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The workers who laid railroad lines to connect its Atlantic and Pacific coasts worked across easy terrain of largely flat, treeless prairie and plains. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Even the larch wood planks of their coffins must have been imported to the treeless desert region from hundreds of kilometers away. Politically savvy princesses wove together a vast ancient empire 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z But they faced a new problem: A storm system had arrived, with winds whipping down the treeless hillsides and foaming the seas below. A Small Boat, a Vast Sea and a Desperate Escape From Russia 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic is a treeless, rocky and bitterly cold wilderness, with large parts covered by thick glaciers. Monkeylike Animals Once Lived in the Arctic, New Fossils Show 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z On treeless land hemmed by glaciers, mountains and deep fjords, Longyearbyen is a town of visible paradoxes. Church helps mining community evolve in dark, warming Arctic 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Heat radiates from the wide open, treeless street, while a man’s leg sticks out of the door of a carriage, leaving us uncertain whether is jumping in or tumbling out. Review | A forgotten Impressionist is rediscovered at the Phillips Collection 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z In a borough that is often defined by brick, asphalt and treeless streets, these verdant corners have long served the nearly 1.5 million people who live there. What Is New York’s Greenest Borough? Probably Not the One You Think. 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Bison, which evolved on the treeless plains, are much more comfortable at high temperatures. The return of the American bison is an environmental boon — and a logistical mess 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z By Day 4, we’ve dropped into the mountain mahogany, juniper and parched, treeless hillsides of the high desert. In Idaho, R & R means rapids and relaxation 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z As we descended toward the Little Kern River, I soon beheld the southern extension of the Great Western Divide, that string of treeless peaks that forms the western parapet of the Kern gorge. As a young man, I traveled the High Sierra by mule. After 59 years, I tried it again 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Winter on that exposed, elevated and treeless plateau of central Arabia can bring bitter winds and even sometimes snow. Royal send-off for trek across Arabian desert in British explorer's footsteps 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The white coat helps them navigate the treeless tundra as they dig burrows and store food to survive the winter, according to zoo officials. New arctic fox at Point Defiance Zoo will melt your heart 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z The blocks of treeless town house developments in Ballard and Fremont demonstrate that even our current town house codes are creating new heat islands. Seattle’s town house residents deserve trees, too 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Researchers have found that the treeless land that is left behind, if not carefully restored, can increase the speed and volume of rain runoff, worsening floods in the mountains. How Coal Mining and Years of Neglect Left Kentucky Towns at the Mercy of Flooding 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Having grown up in a small apartment on a busy, treeless avenue in Brooklyn, I was an embarrassing 40 years old before I first dug my hands into a pile of dirt. Plantable paper is an eco-friendly, sentimental gardening tool 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The treeless condition is maintained by low precipitation, frequent fires, and grazing. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z Many countries made their own pledges, including well-treed Canada, which pledged to plant two billion trees, and nearly treeless Saudi Arabia, which pledged 10 billion trees. Can Planting a Trillion New Trees Save the World? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z He was now photographing suburbia, tract homes, treeless neighborhoods, strip malls, parking lots, highways and pollution. Review | Robert Adams looked past despair and found the truth of America 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z It’s burning dry grass and shrubs in southwest Alaska’s mostly treeless tundra. Western wildfires force evacuations in Arizona, California 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The fire is burning in dry grass and shrubs like alder and willow in the mostly treeless tundra in southwest Alaska. Tundra wildfire creeps closer toward Alaska Native community 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Tundra is a treeless area covered with low-lying plants, and the fire was being fed by extremely dry grass and brush filled with alders and willow. Tundra fire slows, but still aiming at Alaska Native village 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Now we were east of the trail, meandering across a treeless declivity with no obvious route at our feet. Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The landscape is flat and muted: dry, mostly treeless ground and patchy grass. As Australia’s climate changes, a tropical disease advances 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The Arctic tundra is a vast, mostly treeless region stretching across the far northern areas of North America and Eurasia. Arctic greening won’t save the climate 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Mostly, he rolls through vast stretches of emptiness, the flat, largely treeless plains punctuated by distant herds of cattle. The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Enough Truck Drivers 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z What we call tundra — a treeless zone of low rainfall and permafrost — supports hundreds of plants and lichen species, which feed vast reindeer herds. Perspective | Five myths about the Arctic 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z “I feel like I have come from the Dark Side to become a Jedi warrior,” he joked as he braced against a chill wind blowing across the treeless stretches of cooled lava and distant volcanoes. Is carbon capture here? 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z But that’s unlikely, Dee says, because fallen wood quickly loses its strength—and historians think Vikings were seeking timber to bring back to relatively treeless Greenland. First Viking settlement in North America dated to exactly 1000 years ago 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Adak’s bizarre “national forest,” a tiny cluster of evergreens in an otherwise nearly treeless terrain, is also worth a visit. An off-grid getaway in Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Wohlleben cites research showing that even a dozen trees planted in a residential neighborhood can extend the life span of residents by more than a year, compared with individuals who dwell on treeless streets. Review | We’re at home among trees — which might be able to sense our presence 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Commercial sealing was once the lifeblood of St. George, a treeless speck of volcanic rock far from the U.S. mainland. On an Alaskan island, a mayor fights for fur seals - and a new future 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Mobile homes dominate the flat landscape of his Tucson neighborhood, a mostly treeless plot near the railroad tracks and Interstate 10. Extreme heat is killing people in Arizona’s mobile homes 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Steppes are belts of grassland, usually treeless plains, that stretch from Ukraine through Russia and Central Asia and into Mongolia and China. A billion new trees might not turn Ukraine green 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z South Korea’s Sung Kang was the defending champion after winning in 2019, when the second of just two Nelsons was played at the treeless links course Trinity Forest in Dallas. K.H. Lee gets 1st PGA Tour win at Nelson, qualifies for PGA 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z But the setup wasn't good for spectators, and the field suffered with players skeptical of the treeless links layout. Matsuyama returns at Nelson, 1st event since winning Masters 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z On the commute back to the nearly treeless neighborhood she called home, that feeling would evaporate. Green health: a tree-filled street can positively influence depression, study finds 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z The canal travels about 29 miles to the north, snaking across the treeless hills, until it reaches the North Fork of the Milk River. A Canal That Opened the Montana Prairie May Soon Dry Up 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z In “The Plague,” he confined his scourge to Oran, a “treeless,” “soulless” port city “ringed with luminous hills,” in his native Algeria. Perspective | In Camus’ ‘The Plague,’ lessons about fear, quarantine and the human spirit 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Most of the previously identified structures were small, leading researchers to conclude they were most likely used as winter dwellings on a nearly treeless landscape. This Mysterious Ancient Structure Was Made of Mammoth Bones 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z “The Plague” takes place in Oran, a city that Camus, as a son and partisan of its rival, Algiers, found tacky, shallow, commercial; treeless and soulless. Albert Camus' 'The Plague' and our own Great Reset 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The adverse effects of treeless neighborhoods are well-known and many. Green health: a tree-filled street can positively influence depression, study finds 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z There are no permanent human residents on this treeless Arctic island that lies off the coast of Siberia, deep in a tightly controlled military zone of the freezing Russian Far East. The Arctic honeymoon that led to an unexpected reunion 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Route 33 streams past rusted-out tractors by the side of the road and between treeless hills covered with oil rigs before passing the one-stoplight oil town of Taft, the proudly conservative heart of Trump territory. Along a scenic highway, a road map of California's hope and anxiety 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Although the property had earlier been described as “treeless,” between 10 to 15 percent of the land does have trees of varying sizes on it, Corsello said. New Amazon-Arlington solar farm to fulfill most of county’s renewable pledges 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z It was a flat, treeless marsh near Bangkok. Ranking: World's 100 Greatest Golf Courses - Golf Digest 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z On the far side of the bridge spanning the Rio Branco, a dirt road leads through treeless, rolling hills to the town of Ourilândia, a half-hour journey by motorbike or pickup truck. Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z But the pair have fallen in love with farm living, the solitude of their treeless landscape, friendly Starbuck and the rhythm of four distinct seasons. Wall Street seeks a valuable resource from Washington state’s aging farmers: their water 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Homes on tree-lined streets sell for more than homes on treeless streets. Why trees aren’t just colorful fall features for our region’s neighborhoods 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Residents are deeply attached to their community of one- and two-story structures that stand between the Bering Strait and the treeless expanse of Alaska’s western tundra. In small Alaska city, Native women say police ignored rapes 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Everywhere you looked as evening fell across treeless ranches, you’d see their forms silhouetted against the dusty backdrop. Burning issue: how fashion's love of leather is fuelling the fires in the Amazon 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The long, treeless fiords, the vertical cliffs of granite and schist, slowly disappeared. Civilization on Ice 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Of the 3.2bn ha of treeless land, 1.5bn ha is used for growing food, leaving 1.7bn of potential forest land in areas that were previously degraded or sparsely vegetated. Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Also, given that restoration must accommodate a multiplicity of needs, including those of smallholder farmers, we disagree that agroforestry should be confined to treeless regions. Forests: many benefits of the Bonn Challenge 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z They started a spread in the treeless badlands where ranchers scratch a living and paleontologists scrape for fossils. ‘The Nation’s T. rex’: How a Montana mom’s hike led to an incredible discovery 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Rising over the mantle of ghostlike smoke bushes that carpeted the ground to the treeless horizon, the plane traced a route over the landscape, its bombardier dropping 50 poisoned sausages every square kilometer. Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Target degraded forests and partly wooded areas for natural regeneration; focus plantations and agroforestry systems on treeless regions and, where possible, select agroforestry over plantations. Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z The analysis found there are 1.7bn hectares of treeless land on which 1.2tn native tree saplings would naturally grow. Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z It felt like I’d been on the treeless Hay Plain for most of my life. On those long, gruelling roads, I hunted for the memory of the child I used to be 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The setting: a prison in the Nevada desert, a place of coiled razor wire and bare concrete walls set in a treeless sun-seared land of sand and dust. ‘The Mustang’ review: Impressive prison tale captures anger of man and horse 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Now, he was breathless at 10,500 feet, with a treeless steppe before him. Venezuelans Fleeing Crisis Face Desperate Hike to 12,000 Feet 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Born in Alaska, Kai had spent his early years in Sand Point, a treeless island fishing port at the eastern entry to the Bering Sea, where his father had worked as a commercial fisherman. NO RETURN: The final voyage of the Destination 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z From 6,000 to 4,500 years ago the woodland declined, and by about 2,800 to 2,500 years ago the isles "were more or less treeless", said Scape. 'Incredibly rare' find in prehistoric forest 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The trail opened out onto a hilltop, high and wide, treeless, with panoramic views. The Friendship That Made Google Huge 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z A squat, angular structure plastered with grimy grey tiles on a short, treeless street, the apartment block is as far as central Paris gets from 19th-century grandeur. How the murders of two elderly Jewish women shook France 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The tan, twin-rotor Chinook aircraft thumped over treeless cliffs and the historic port of Dutch Harbor, parking at a mountainside airstrip too small to land jet airliners. The new Arctic Frontier 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Afforestation — the planting of forests in treeless areas—is one method bandied around by experts. Carbon capture: What we don’t talk about when we talk about climate change 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s a place of pleasant, if often treeless, subdivisions and large strip malls, with no central downtown. In a Mississippi Restaurant, Two Americas Coexist Side by Side 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Chesneau’s love of links golf shows in the open vistas of the largely treeless Golf National, although he kept a crescent of ancient oaks around No. 3. Ryder Cup course fit for a king _ literally 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z It had no bunkers, dry water hazards, internal out-of-bounds whose only function was adding interest to the treeless, flat ground—it was about the worst golf course you could imagine. Journeys: Andrew Landry - Golf Digest 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z In the summer, the mountains around Faraya are dry and treeless. Lebanon’s mountains offer cool refuge from Mideast heat 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Their treeless lot looks like an outpost on Mars, with a series of tan, prefab habitations that are the same color as the powdery soil underfoot. The unlikely story of the meteorite feud that ended up a fugitive from the law 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Out in the first group of the day, a strong westerly that whipped across the treeless layout proved no problem for the 39-year-old from Las Vegas, a far cry from what transpired 24 hours beforehand. Golf: 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Wind gusted above 25 mph at times after two rounds of calmer conditions and lower scores on the treeless, links-style layout a few miles south of downtown Dallas. Golf: Rookie Aaron Wise joins Marc Leishman atop Byron Nelson leaderboard 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z The first of the apartment complexes, purchased in 2013, was the Meadows, a subdivision of duplexes in a treeless expanse in a suburb of Atlanta. At Sean Hannity properties in working-class areas, an aggressive approach to rent collection 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The prison is at the foot of a treeless hill and looks more like a rural two-story home than a penitentiary. He Fled a Prison in Iceland. Now It’s Good to Be Back. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The 56-acre Liberty Square project, opened in 1937 as part of the New Deal, is a maze of dilapidated, faintly pastel-colored buildings on a treeless landscape of parched grass. Tired of Gang Violence, Students Walked Out of Class. Even That Was Dangerous. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Extensive logging hasn't taken root in southern California recently, but widespread wildfires did leave part of the land treeless. Mudslides, Wildfires, and Drought—California's Deadly Weather Explained 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z But around the jail, the view remains treeless and desolate. The Wall of Love Outside a Jail 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z The bird lives in remote, treeless prairies in central Florida. Biologists: Counts of Florida grasshopper sparrows are low 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z The menu, while limited, is garnished with scenic views of the Yakima River and the majestic, treeless mountains of the Yakima Valley. The Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center promotes the industry through education and experiences 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z I have stared out windows for hours; a person trudging down the treeless street excited me as a major event. Waiting for Depression to Lift 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z This treeless dogleg right hugs the shoreline of windswept Brosewere Bay. The Best 18: Which NYC Golf Holes Made the Cut? - Golf Digest 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Michelle Armstrong, 34, drives 45 minutes each way with her boyfriend to arrive at the treeless strip mall where the Pleasantville clinic is located. Chris Christie becomes unlikely hero for New Jersey drug treatment centers 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The largely treeless artificial islands are now thickly wooded in many areas. Canada Is Turning 150. Oh, to Be 100 Again, for Expo 67. 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z But for the first time since the 1600s, this small patch of land cherished by generations of neighbors sits treeless. ‘I feel as if I lost a member of my family’: A tree older than the U.S. falls in Washington 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Another explanation for Sandgathe and Dibble’s findings, she speculates, is that Neanderthals might have had to rely on animal dung, instead of wood, for fuel during cold and relatively treeless periods. Quest for Clues to Humanity's First Fires 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Opens of recent years have featured treeless courses with a links-like look. Young, hungry field is having an easy time at the U.S. Open 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Its muscular Heartland layout—with its vast treeless landscape and huge Wisconsin sky—opens up more space than any course in the championship’s history. Don't call Erin Hills a pushover just yet - Golf Digest 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z A windswept, nearly treeless expanse of dunes, waving prairie grass, and fast, undulating turf, the new place has every attribute of a links except cawing sea birds and an ocean. Trinity Forest Golf Club promises to be the PGA Tour's most unique venue - Golf Digest 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Their neighbors were several dozen other Danes and Norwegians on little farms scattered across more than 64 square miles of treeless prairie in the high and dry Nebraska Panhandle. Danish television documentary to explore Nebraska and Iowa 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z The isolated stretch of treeless desert they found outside Portal was perfect: it was sparsely populated, 150 miles distant from Tucson, the nearest city, and velvety black at night. Arizona Sky Village's residents have one rule: 'Turn off your goddamned lights' 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Landlocked by treeless plains and deserts, Delhi is inherently dusty. Delhi's deadly dust: how construction sites are choking the city 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Their new home sits on a drab, treeless, alley-size street less than a mile from the historic city square here, just beyond the downtown galleries, cafes and boutiques and America’s oldest farmers market. ‘Now they live in the light’: A Syrian refugee family finds only love and compassion in America 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The landscape kept flipping between temperate forest and cold, treeless steppe. Neanderthals Were People, Too 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The “Atlas of the North American Indian” notes that the Independence I people “lacked two elements later Arctic dwellers would consider essential: adequate clothing and reliable fuel for fire in a treeless landscape.” When a Country Melts 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z More than 400 racing teams are expected to compete through Friday on the flat, treeless expanse along U.S. Speed Week back at Bonneville Salt Flats after 2-year hiatus 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z Other herds roam across treeless tracts of states such as Nevada and would see agents from miles away. Dollars in the wind 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Protection Island is a high-cliffed and nearly treeless swath of land near the mouth of Discovery Bay about five miles west of Port Townsend. Climate change may be turning gulls into cannibals 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Mont Ventoux is difficult enough just for its grade and its treeless, rocky final section, which offers no relief from the sun. In Surprise Move, Chris Froome Takes On Peter Sagan in Tour Sprint 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Speed Week is the largest event of several annual races staged at the treeless, white expanse about 100 miles west of Salt Lake City. Racers: Speed Week on Utah salt flats good to go, so far 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Ahead lies Rattlesnake Mountain, claimed as a cultural site by the Yakama Nation, and asserted by local boosters to be the world’s tallest treeless mountain. The Tri-Cities’ contribution to our literary landscape: a poet laureate and shapeshifting werewolves 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Abandoned mine pits dot the bare, treeless hillsides in Samarinda, the capital of East Kalimantan province on Indonesia's part of Borneo island. Indonesia faces environmental time bomb after coal bust 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z From Chinatown to Columbia Heights, nothing felt right — some communities seemed too commercialized, others too treeless and urban. Woodley Park offers green, suburban feel near downtown D.C. — plus a zoo 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The nearly treeless Oakmont is an extreme example, a total reversal of the sentiment that trees belong on a golf course, because its heritage didn't rely on aerial hazards whatsoever. Oakmont Country Club: Gorilla In The Mist - Golf Digest 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Living in their temporary homes on the treeless steppe, some evacuees missed the lush woods and fish-filled streams of home. What it was like to live in Chernobyl's shadow in 1992 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Obermeyer said the Flint Hills are alive and well thanks in large part to yearly burns, which maintain a relatively treeless landscape. Cedar Point event allows participation in prairie burning 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z On a treeless plain in eastern Ethiopia, thousands of destitute pastoralists have set up camp outside the tiny village of Fedeto. Drought tests a changed Ethiopia 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Take, for example, Zaatari camp, just six miles from Syria’s border in a desolate and treeless stretch of desert. Prince Ali of Jordan: Football Can Help Refugees 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The highest point is little more than 12ft above sea level on this grassy, treeless island. Satellite eye on Earth: December 2015 – in pictures 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Now, the sun bakes treeless plains that are increasingly giving way to deserts. Scarred Riverbeds and Dead Pistachio Trees in a Parched Iran 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Perched on the treeless Peruvian altiplano at 14,200 feet, it’s one of the highest cities on the planet. High in the Andes, A Mine Eats a 400-Year-Old City 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Permits were very difficult to get, leaving the city treeless until the City Council passed the “coniferous tree” exception, allowing the sale of Christmas trees without a permit in December. New York Today: A Sidewalk Forest 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The main town, Camden, was a grid of treeless streets where discount stores advertised in their windows that they accepted food stamps. Why a poor Southern city’s only hope was a Chinese company moving in 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The northern edge of the boreal is expanding into the treeless tundra in places, responding to a longer growing season and warmer temperatures. Permafrost Meltdown Raises Risk of Runaway Global Warming 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z On a recent flight over the treeless tundra, the remote site was buzzing with backhoes, trucks and hundreds of workers preparing for production to begin in late 2016. Canada's once-booming Arctic diamond sector loses luster 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z To the uneducated eye, South Park is a treeless expanse that stretches between the Front Range to the east and the Mosquito Range to the northwest. Oil, gas exploration concerns some in Colorado Springs area 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z In such areas, 30,000 acres is not a “near treeless hole.” Letters to the Editor 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z In contrast, Ringling's spread is flat and treeless except for the bamboo and other vegetation planted in the past two decades and fed to the animals as roughage. Here's Where Ringling Bros. Is Sending Its Circus Elephants to Retire 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z We climbed high enough to be able to see over the rough treeless ranges to the Arctic Ocean and the coastal plain where we were headed. The battle to protect Alaska’s great wildlife sanctuary | Rebecca Solnit 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z He grew up on B Ranch, a windswept, treeless grassland between Drakes Bay and the Pacific Ocean. Longtime Point Reyes rancher Joseph ‘Joey’ Mendoza dies at 71 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Much of the hike is unsheltered across a mostly treeless landscape. Guided hikes on Mount St. Helens offer up-close views 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z What a disappointment to see such a treeless, greenless golf course! Letters: In the NBA, the King doesn't have the crown 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The ancient city was treeless and empty, pervaded by a quiet that matched the tombs. ISIS in Palmyra 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z If it's a rare day with clear skies, the big game animals should be easier to spot on the uninhabited, treeless island. Agency will hunt invasive caribou on remote Alaska island 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Back in the 1870s and early 1880s, as settlement moved west, ranchers came to the largely treeless Gyp Hills with the aim to graze cattle. A fast carcass on the Kansas canvas 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z A small but vocal group wants the surrounding mountains to be a national park rather than the treeless wasteland it’s becoming. Review: Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence reunite for dud ‘Serena’ 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z I ventured into the treeless warren of old hills north of the city and sat with a man who was at that time an emir of the Yazidis. ISIS and the Destruction of History 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z There was no sign on the former brick factory on the treeless block in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where Arthur Mondella worked. Marijuana Farm Found at a Cherry Business in Brooklyn 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Hudson Road was one of hundreds of drab, treeless terraces ordering human life into neat, grey rows that ringed the city and one of tens of thousands like it in regional towns across Britain. On the Trail of Britain's Homegrown Jihadis But as more plows took to the treeless plains, the dust began blowing. Dead town Saunders rides out dry dusts of time 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Instead they endured the mud as relentless shelling destroyed woods and villages and created desolate treeless landscapes, while many cities were reduced to heaps of rubble. AP PHOTOS: 4 seasons in 1 war on WWI battlefields 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z An album shows some city blocks, treeless and tree-filled, side by side. New York Today: City of (More) Trees 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z It sits in a flat, treeless sweep of high plains. The truth behind America’s most famous gay-hate murder 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z He described being first assigned spot 598, a treeless far-flung purgatory. Camping in Vegas? You can hitch up your RV near the Strip – for now 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z “Wider, faster, treeless roads not only ruin our public places, they kill people,” he wrote, referring to statistics of traffic deaths each year that, in his view, were a direct result of poor design. Crisis in the Suburbs: One Man's Fight to Fix the American Dream 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Their parents, sitting in cement buildings littered across a treeless expanse, say they worry that their children will be receptive to recruitment drives by Boko Haram. Africa’s jihadists, on their way 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z He didn't remember hearing a boom or feeling a sting, just waking up numb on the treeless tundra high in Rocky Mountain National Park and discovering his good friend was trying to revive his wife. Lightning deaths at national park concern visitors 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Kachin's formerly verdant hills are now scarred and treeless. The murky world of the illicit jade trade 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z The average rainfall here, after all, is just 17 inches, and Morton County, once the epicenter of the Depression-era Dust Bowl, is typically stark and treeless - seemingly always thirsty for drink. Hard-hit county embodies drought’s toll on region 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z A photo from 1922 of my own block—on Gainsborough, the first street that was settled—shows a handful of houses on a treeless expanse in the middle of a windswept prairie. When You've Had Detroit: Growing up in North Rosedale 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Boldly coloured but otherwise identical mid-rise concrete blocks line the largely treeless streets. Gavrilo Princip: Remembering an assassin 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z And now home was here, in this isolated, treeless camp, a place of poverty, uncertainty and boredom. Zaatari Refugee Camp Journal: Behind Barbed Wire, Shakespeare Inspires a Cast of Young Syrians 2014-04-01T02:27:33Z They normally live in the treeless tundra of the Arctic. A snowy owl perches itself atop an awning during rush hour in downtown Washington 2014-01-23T00:41:00Z The officials described the site of his accident as being part of a wide, treeless snowfield, known for its deep snow and for the challenges it presents for experienced skiers, including posted avalanche warnings. Doctors Say Racing Champion ‘Fighting for his Life’ 2013-12-30T14:37:56Z The old abandoned hospital sits on a sprawling, treeless complex on the eastern edge of Capitol Hill not far from RFK Stadium. Refusing Rapid Rehousing 2013-08-18T23:28:13Z One frequently repeated statement about Johannesburg, for instance, is that the city — situated at almost 6,000 feet along South Africa’s nearly treeless Highveld — constitutes the largest man-made forest in the world. Nonpartisan Fact-Checking Comes to South Africa 2013-07-24T01:33:24Z Through the gate of the grimy yellow-colored compound, small buildings and a treeless concrete courtyard could be seen. Young Indian rape suspect held alone for own safety, says innocent 2013-02-05T21:02:55Z Across the area, rows of temporary trailers are plunked in the middle of brown, treeless pastures, while smoke-belching earth movers prepare space for new housing developments and business construction. New oil workers key bloc in ND Senate race 2012-11-05T13:56:00Z Villagers say they are even more determined to stay after seeing the relocation area: a collection of shoddily built houses in a treeless field. In Battle Over Myanmar Mine, Folk Heroines Emerge 2012-09-28T16:10:54Z Villagers say they are even more determined to stay in their villages after seeing the relocation area, a collection of shoddily built houses in a treeless field. In Battling Mine Project in Myanmar, 2 'Iron Ladies' Rise 2012-09-26T22:13:20Z The old notion was that forests in boreal regions ringing the treeless tundra would slowly advance north. Dot Earth Blog: Warming Arctic Tundra Producing Pop-Up Forests 2012-06-03T17:02:33Z Through much of the year, there is no break between the treeless coastal plain and the frozen seas. The Energy Rush: Shell Arctic Ocean Drilling Stands to Open New Oil Frontier 2012-05-23T23:27:17Z Gray, treeless monuments to the town’s more profitable past. Last Ones Left in Treece, Kan., a Toxic Town 2012-05-21T04:38:51Z Campbell's neighborhood is rebuilding, but vacant lots and treeless horizons are still reminders of the disaster. In tornado-weary Joplin, graduates eager to move on despite Obama visit 2012-05-20T19:24:14Z Refugees say the other camps are built on swampy, treeless land and that they are unsuitable for living. The Lost Children of Nuba 2012-05-14T05:00:00Z The farther one goes west the more treeless the country becomes. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z Two miles brought me to the foot of the downs, where all signs of cultivation terminated abruptly, and only a treeless expanse of turf-covered hills met my eye. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z This valley is very pretty, and, after the treeless plain of Senafe, is doubly agreeable, for the sides of the hills are everywhere clothed with the gigantic candelabra cactus. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z Now the book was shut, the map was destroyed, and her future lay before her a treeless, trackless, mist-shrouded desert. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z On the west bank of the River we see a narrower plain bounded by a steep treeless ridge. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z The same amount of energy and money expended in a treeless, level country would probably have built a city three times as large as Seattle. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Different indeed from these treeless, waterless steppes are the valleys and mountains of the seaboard. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z Some of the great beams which crossed it lie on the ground, and it would be a matter of considerable interest to inquire whence, in a treeless country like this, these massive beams were obtained. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z The plateau was treeless, except for an occasional wind-threshed poplar, and an isolated moth-eaten poplar can be the final touch of desolation. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z I dashed the spurs into my horse, and rode away past the crossroads, past the finger-post; away with the level upland stretching before me, dry, bare, almost treeless--and behind me all I loved. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Nowhere in the world does the great tree-climbing cat reach greater size or accumulate more fat than on the treeless deserts of the far south. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z The shifting horde raised clouds of dust above the line, from which the bare, treeless prairie stretched away southward for miles. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z "Dear me! those clouds certainly look threatening," commented Mrs. Barclay, forgetting the Chases, as a treeless space in front gave her for a moment a wider view of the sky. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Straight out we went to Tiree, a long, treeless strip of land with low hills at one end, and a wide, sandy, Jersey-like beach. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z It goes alone or with its mate only; feeds chiefly on the ground; does not penetrate into deep forests, nor is it seen on the treeless plains. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z Beyond the houses stretched a low yellowish grassy plain that was very like a Nebraska prairie in appearance, and a league away to the north rose a low range of treeless hills. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z In the treeless region about the Sierra de la Ventana we saw this bird about holes on the banks of the streams, where it doubtless had nests.” Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z Instead of a low coast and open treeless shore, we saw steep hills, covered with lofty trees, and thick underwood. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z The pines groan white-laden, The waves shiver, struck by the wind; Beyond from treeless horizons, Broken snow-peaks crawl to the sea. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z It is a very charming melody, and heard always on the treeless plains when there is no other bird-music, with the exception of the trilling and grasshopper-like notes of a few Synallaxine species. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z This is especially the case on the outer slopes of the Outer range, which are formed of rocky ribs with a covering of gravel, and are "barren, treeless, waterless, and grassless." Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z I have never heard of this bird nesting on the pampas, and am inclined to think that it only breeds in forest-regions, and visits the marshes in the treeless districts after the young have flown. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z Camp Badush, at a height of 9100 feet, though shut in by high mountains, was cool—a barren, rocky, treeless spot. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z One morning in early summer, Lad, as usual, bounded ahead of the Mistress and the Master, as they drew near to the treeless "mount." Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z Above the mouth it is a clear and partly navigable stream, flowing through a valley nearly five miles wide, fertile although treeless. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z The Chahar Mahals, for Persia, are populous, and in some parts large villages, many of which are Armenian and Georgian, occur at frequent intervals, most of them treeless, but all surrounded by cultivated lands. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z This treeless waste of sand dunes along the solitary shore near the village afforded the privacy where they might carry on their work unmolested. Story of the Aeroplane 2012-02-05T03:00:08.697Z The first view, on emerging from the buff treeless mountains, was very attractive. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z It was treeless, and covered with short grass and mullein; a slope where no crop but buckwheat could be expected to thrive. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z At the present day the whole plain of the Mesaoria is naturally bare and treeless, and it is only the loftiest and central summits of Mount Olympus that still retain their covering of pine woods. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The descent is into the eastern part of the Ardal valley, over arid treeless hillsides partially ploughed, to the village of Dehnau, not yet deserted for the summer. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The wide sea of grass around us was now and then broken by a grove, springing up with luxuriance and beauty amid the treeless tract of country that stretched around on every side. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z It is an odd feature of Cornwall that however bare and treeless some parts are, and they could hardly be barer in the Hebrides, yet the towns are generally warmly encompassed by trees. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z There are charming groves and parks and treeless downs, and the river cuts through the 76 alluvial soil to a depth of eight and ten feet, throwing up broad beaches on either side. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z The bare, treeless, almost perpendicular sand-bluffs along the coast, impart to it a dreary aspect, which even the rocky chain immediately behind, rising some 2000 to 4000 feet, scarcely succeeds in softening. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z From Dehnau the path I took leads over gravelly treeless hills, through many treeless gulches, to the top of a great gorge, through which the Sabzu passes as an impetuous torrent. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z From the base of this hill and lake country the general plain of the district spreads northward in an arid and treeless level towards the broken banks of the rivers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z It breeds abundantly throughout the Barren Grounds and in considerable numbers on the treeless areas which form an almost continuous fringe along the west coast of the Bay nearly to its southern extremity. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z A boreal tree squirrel, such as Tamiasciurus, could hardly be suspected of crossing a treeless, intermontane desert valley, miles wide. Speciation of the Wandering Shrew 2011-12-22T03:00:30.143Z The wind tearing over the treeless expanse was terrible, the lightning lit the skies. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z We are told that a station on the royal road in Cadusia, in a wholly bare and treeless region, was surrounded by a park of high pines and cypresses. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z The scenery got more varied as they proceeded more inland; the river swept at times through vast treeless wastes, and on its banks lay alligators basking in the sunshine. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z Opposite them, just at the opening of the road leading down to the Marais, the setting sun, an enormous ball tinted orange by the mist, filled the entire space between the two treeless banks. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z Boat Encampment of to-day is neither picturesque nor interesting; indeed, there are several camp-sites at the Bend that one would choose in preference to that rather damp patch of brush-covered, treeless clearing. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Close to the Indus, and beyond the bare, hot, treeless shores of the ocean, the southern part of the plain consists of sandy flats, in which nothing grows but prickly herbs and a few palms. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z Not even on the prairies of Western America can they boast a longer furrow than can be traced on these plains of tawny, treeless Spain. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The lowlands and the lower mountains, especially southward, are generally treeless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The words that best describe the country are not trees, hills, forests, gently flowing streams, such words as commonly express American landscape, but rather, gorges, mountain ranges, broad river valleys, treeless expanses of country. Armenian Legends and Festivals 2011-11-26T03:00:13.237Z I have been riding about on stage-coaches for five days past, but the hills are so treeless that one gets little shade, and the sun's glare is tremendous. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Across the skylight lay a few scanty backyards—treeless, grassless, uninteresting. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z Its general character is a rolling plateau, three to four thousand feet above the ocean, forming extensive, treeless plains, which are interspersed with wooded mountain chains, river valleys, and extensive tracts of brush-land. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z There are also large stretches of grassy plains, and in the south-east an area of treeless steppe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Although the valleys are generally broad expanses of arable land, grass covered and treeless, the gorges of the Euphrates and Tigris can not be surpassed in grandeur and wildness. Armenian Legends and Festivals 2011-11-26T03:00:13.237Z He laid his course by the compass and held straight North across the treeless rock-ribbed plain. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z This is the ash tree of the almost treeless prairies from Dakota southward, where it not only lives, but flourishes as well as in its native habitat, the rich soil of stream banks farther east. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Of the land we could not see half a mile in any direction, for the scenery was a series of great round knolls, or small hills, cultivated to the top, but treeless and bare. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Yet here the small long-legged but powerful "Tarpans," the wild horses of the treeless plains of Russia and Tartary, were picking their morning meal. Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science 2011-10-03T02:00:33.003Z East-northeast over the rolling, treeless prairie, and far to our right and rear runs the high, rock-faced ridge that shuts out the cold north winds from the reservation. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z Never, he thought, as his glance swept the barren, treeless waste, had eyes of mortal man beheld its equal for absolute bleak desolation. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z Northward the slopes were bare and treeless, too, but closely carpeted with the dense growth of buffalo grass. Trumpeter Fred A Story of the Plains 2011-09-15T02:00:11.393Z That night I walked alone under a haggard moon down a treeless road that wound beside a canal. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z In some places it seemed bare and sandy, while in others there were clumps of forest trees, but for the most part it was treeless. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z Here and there a faint breeze tore rents through the misty veil, and we caught glimpses of a treeless, shrubless plain beneath. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z Out of the northeast it roared, straight across the frozen gulf from the treeless, snow-buried wastes of Wollaston Land, driving before it flinty particles of snow that hissed earthward in long cutting slants. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z The trail continued all day to lead us through the jungle; but before sunset we found ourselves out in the open, on the brow of a hill that overlooked a vast, almost treeless, swamp. O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z Hajigak is a range of treeless mountain ridges with a thin population of villagers who graze animals and farm the valleys below. Afghan Hajigak Iron Ore Gets Bids From India, Iran, Canada 2011-09-07T14:13:24Z A weary waste of sandy, desert road; a treeless veldt covered sparsely with a coarse grass; a dreary farmhouse in the distance surrounded by a few trees, was a joyless picture to look upon. An I.D.B. in South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:33.733Z We neared the Cuban coast by the Isle of Pines, a pallid desert shore, apparently treeless and parched. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z But it was bleak and treeless once more. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z I had not gone far, and had reached the outskirts of an almost treeless savanna, when my gun-bearer brought me to a halt by the word mbogo. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z There is the land itself, flat ground and subtle hills rendered treeless by the permanently frozen soil. Taking the Arctic Plunge 2011-07-29T21:17:30Z It was, by far, the largest single wildfire on treeless Arctic tundra ever recorded, and was twice as big as all previously recorded Alaska tundra fires combined. Huge 2007 tundra fire seen as ominous sign for climate 2011-07-29T19:14:51Z It means a white mountain, and is a general name for any high, snow-covered, or white, treeless peak. The Mountains of Oregon 2011-07-17T02:00:38.297Z As we dropped down the shallow, winding road from Nuoro, quite quickly the moors seemed to spread on either side, treeless, bushy, rocky, desert. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z III Come to the forest, or the treeless meadows Deep with their hay or grain; Come where the hills lift high their thrones of shadows, Where tawny orchards reign. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z Sjödals Vand is a long straggling lake, very much exposed to the wind, and not in any way beautiful except for its wildness, as its shores are almost treeless and rather flat. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z The heat in their four-roomed cabin, in the midst of the treeless land, was an ordeal alone. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z The meaning of Ta-ko-man is a high, treeless, white or light colored peak or mound. The Mountains of Oregon 2011-07-17T02:00:38.297Z It is a steep and lonely city, treeless, as in some old illumination. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Even the desert waste in its wide expanse, the jagged treeless mountain peaks, took on all manner of soft and changing lights in the golden glow of the cloudless afternoon. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z Save for a scattered line of brush here and there, the great plains until they should reach the defile above referred to were treeless, and presented a succession of gentle undulations. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z Otherwise, on the open prairie, with the moon shining down upon its treeless sward, he could not have eluded the vigilance of the camp-guards, one of whom was Snively himself. The Yellow Chief 2011-07-05T02:00:27.013Z After an empty, treeless road, through frozen meadows covered with snow, now red and now blue beneath the sky, he carried his gladness like a lantern which he had to light him in the dark. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z It is perfectly treeless, but the grass-covered rolling downs were so like the prairies of Manitoba that May and I were impatient to go ashore and feel soft green sward beneath our feet again. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z The moor, for miles around, was treeless and houseless; devoid of vegetation, except heather, which clad with its gloomy frieze coat the shivering landscape. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z It’s as flat as a pancake, and, for the most part, treeless. The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z A scorching sun beats down onto the treeless site and refugees seek shelter beneath the canvas or sit in the shade of blankets slung between the tents. Syrian refugees in Turkish camp watch news of home 2011-06-18T16:07:29Z Indeed, this flat, treeless shore on which the ocean is eternally beating, is just now the brightest paradise I ever knew. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z We passed through a delightful region which descended gently for half a mile to a treeless moor, where we pitched camp. Among the Canadian Alps 2011-05-30T02:00:16.600Z There are plantations here and there, and coppices, but the general aspect of the country is treeless; it is also a dry country. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z From the upper windows of the prisons, the view above the walls was nothing but a stretch of bleak, rolling country, treeless and barren—the Dartmoor heaths. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z Plant Life 215 The forests—Prairies, treeless plains, and plateaus—The treeless mountain tops. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z For over three months we had been crossing over scorched and desolate plains, encountering quite a number of sunburnt, treeless and waterless deserts. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z As the railways advanced into the treeless interior, public interest in tree-planting became keen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z In the great treeless plains of the Sacramento and San Joaquin they made dome-shaped, earth-covered houses, the doorway in which was sometimes on top, sometimes near the ground on the side. American Indians 2011-04-21T02:00:55.200Z On the crest of the ridge, treeless and overgrown with gorse, Hector had run foul of a donkey, and after a short chase was holding it at bay. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Separating them is the treeless west-central portion of the Continental basin. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z We journeyed full twenty miles that day, and camped on a treeless plain with good water and plenty of grass, but no wood save buffalo chips. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z In 1873 Congress passed and later amended and repealed the timber culture acts, which granted homesteads on the treeless public lands to settlers who planted one-fourth of their entries with trees. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z The Samoyedes are a nomad tribe who wander with their reindeer over the treeless plains which border on the White and Kara seas on either side of the Urals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z In this part of its course the Euphrates runs through an open, treeless and sparsely peopled country, in a valley a few miles wide, which it has eroded in the rocky surface. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Similar conditions are present in northern Mexico, but on the western side of that republic and throughout practically the whole of the peninsula of Lower California the mountains and valleys alike are treeless and desolate. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The way down was through a long, narrow and treeless canyon into which the sun poured with focal power. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z This forest is frequently broken by treeless areas of greater or less extent, especially towards the south, and it suffers greatly from fire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z While open, treeless country characterizes the southern part of the Province, the greater part is undulating, diversified by forest, stream, hill and open country, not unlike Ontario or New York State. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z The usefulness of planting in America is mainly for reclaiming treeless regions, as in the west, and where timber is high priced. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z The question, "Why are the prairies treeless?" has been variously answered by different observers. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z She looked westward, and her memory was full of interminable streaming rapids, wastes of ice-striated rocks, tiresome struggles through woods and wild, wide stretches of tundra and tarn, trackless and treeless, infinitely desolate. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z As the mists lifted, a strong gleam of sunlight shot down upon a spot in the centre of a wide-spreading, treeless plain. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z The situation was much complicated, for just beyond lay the rolling treeless foothills. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z Between them lies the great treeless alkali plain centering around Nevada, Fig. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z The success of arboriculture on the formerly treeless plains and plateaus, however, decreases as one travels westward. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Louis Riel had swung upon the gallows at Regina, before the eyes of many on that dreary, treeless plain, that no traveller who has once seen can forget. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z They had only strayed there upon a roving excursion, and would soon return to the mainland,—the treeless regions. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z Arrived at the beach of the stony, treeless, popular watering-place, most of the happy little girls were instantly paddling in the surf with yells of delight, while the tamer sort dug sand-pits and erected castles. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Our first business on arrival in camp each day was to see to the provision of wood and water for cooking purposes, no easy matter in a treeless country like the Orange Free State. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z If this region had never been swept by fire it is safe to say it would still be treeless. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Almost the only exceptions to this rule are those that live in the treeless countries of the West. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z The nymphs of our groves seek in vain their verdant shades along the treeless rivulets, and flee away, sighing their elegies. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Then for leagues stretched the trackless, treeless waste to the foot of distant hills. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z Towards the north the ground was open and level and treeless for a couple of miles; then it rose a little, and ended on the skyline with a biggish kopje to the north west. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z The vast, irregular belt of forest encircling the central treeless portion of the continent also dies out on its northern border, where the subarctic forest is succeeded northward by the Barren Grounds and tundra plains. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z In the treeless plains to the northward, a few individuals, for lack of anything so suitable as the cactus, dig holes in clay banks, or even lay their eggs upon the surface of the prairie. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Ten or twelve log cabins broke the monotony of the treeless expanse that stretched far away, apparently to a leaden sky. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Sweeping around this valley as a protecting wall are rolling hills, whose bare summits have their sombre treeless austerity clothed by a mantle of purple heather. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z From January to May every steamer now carries tons—as much sometimes as thirty—of flowers on their way to be sold, and that although many of the islands are treeless sandhills! Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z Its true home is on the treeless plateaus east of the Rocky Mountains, but its range extends from Saskatchewan to northern Mexico, and from the Prairie plains to the Cascade Mountains in Oregon. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Uruguay is almost entirely treeless; and this curious phenomenon, in a comparatively moist sub-tropical plain-land, struck him as a remarkable anomaly, and set him speculating on its probable cause. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z The season was well advanced, the treeless prairie being covered with verdure. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z All around the veldt was treeless, and alike bare of bushes; the only relief to its monotonous nakedness being some score or two ant-hills, like hayricks scattered over it. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z A sun-bleached, treeless boulevard leads down to a jetty jutting out past empty white sands into the ocean. Ashes fans' guide: Hidden Adelaide 2010-12-03T10:47:00Z The transition from the luxuriant and varied forest on the east to the treeless, thinly grass-covered plateaus on the west side of the interior Continental basin is gradual. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z It's the depiction of a mountaintop removal mine behind the image of a player, complete with flat, treeless mountaintop, the sound of an explosion and the image of falling rock. Mining activists demand WVU, Nike pull uniform ad 2010-09-02T16:33:00Z The porous rock under its treeless plains sponges up hundreds of inches of rain every year and heats it below ground. Iceland: The Next Electric Car Capital 2010-08-13T17:15:00Z In play only since last June, Chambers Bay, a dry, firm, windswept, nearly treeless man-made links hard against Puget Sound, is already the designated site for the 2015 U.S. Chamber's Bay: Laudable Audible 2010-08-03T04:00:00Z The treeless, links-style course is celebrating its first anniversary this month and many golf connoisseurs are raving. Golf and wine a great duo in Walla Walla 2010-04-28T04:38:00Z Throughout all of this vast treeless region the controlling condition is deficiency of moisture, particularly during the summer or growing season. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z “Fire may be the trigger that shifts the North Slope landscape into a new state,” Shaver says—one vastly different from the frozen, treeless tundra of today. An Arctic with Fire 2010-04-21T15:19:00Z A rumpled, treeless slice of links long abandoned by the sea. 'Old' Soul 2010-03-30T00:00:00Z Some of its 1,500 tigers roam treeless, fenced-in areas, while many others are packed in small cages where they pace agitatedly. 2010-02-13T01:51:00Z In one spot, construction work for the Intercounty Connector highway cut a treeless scar right across the valley. 2010-02-02T05:00:00Z The trees are there scattered or form isolated groves to the south of the general forest boundary, and are finally succeeded by the treeless prairies and interior plains and plateaus. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z On the plateau willows, poplars and chestnut trees grow near the 759 streams, but nine-tenths of the country is treeless, except for scrub. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Embracing all the treeless tundra of the delta of the Yukon River west of longitude one hundred and sixty-two degrees and twenty minutes west from Greenwich and south of the Yukon River, Alaska. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open The road he took was one to the north-west, and, after leaving the town behind, it led him into a treeless, desolated district of wild moors and granite-strewn carns. The Princess Galva A Romance In another version S�mps� is fetched from an island beyond the sea: It is I who summoned S�mps� From an isle amid the ocean, From a skerry bare and treeless. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn The general or underlying reason for the treeless condition of the vast central portion of the continent is doubtless a lack of sufficient rain. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The valleys are wide expanses of arable land, and the hills are for the most part grass-covered and treeless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The Old World horse has been tamed and transplanted to every portion of the temperate zones, and to the dry or treeless portions of the torrid zone. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Where thirty years ago the land was covered with miners' tents and log-huts, an arid and treeless expanse lying between two low hills, there is now a fine modern city. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands Here the rocky surface was treeless and white with desolation. The Story of Malta As the timber-line in that region has an elevation of but 2,500 feet at the extreme western extension of the forest, although gradually rising southward, large portions of the mountains are treeless and barren. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Now we have reached the rim of the valley, and look over into a new country, with many red patches of ploughed land, and sheep in the treeless fields instead of cattle. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History Under a heavy sky and with grey showers rolling over it, that open treeless country looked desolation itself. The Spy in Black Except for the southwest he found this bay surrounded by arid, treeless hills, thus agreeing with the opinion of the explorers by land. The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California Great rocks of granite and limestone cropped out everywhere upon the treeless prairie and were turned a pinkish hue in the glow of the setting sun. Hawk Eye The Barren-Ground caribou still occurs in large herds in northern Labrador, on the treeless region to the west of Hudson Bay, and in winter migrates southward into the shelter of the subarctic forest. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The Caribou have a strong predilection for following the treeless summits of the ridges wherever they are available and extend in a more or less desirable direction. The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin Already they gave light enough to distinguish sea from land quite plainly, and very soon they faintly lit the whole wide treeless countryside. The Spy in Black The house was a log cabin of only three rooms, situated on a bleak, treeless hillside. The Cottage of Delight A Novel Leaving the narrow valley through which the river made continuous twists and turns, they hurried up the slope and soon found themselves on the treeless prairie, which stretched far away to the sky. Hawk Eye The distribution of the forests, prairies, and treeless plains as they existed previous to the coming of Europeans is shown on the accompanying map. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z A sloping upland, wild and desolate, a treeless expanse clothed with bush and scrub, with beyond, at the top of the ascent, a little wood. Our Admirable Betty A Romance These islands, you may or may not know, are to all practical purposes treeless and hedgeless. The Spy in Black On such occasions the shores have been seen flooded by the invading ocean, houses carried clean away, and a forest turned suddenly into a bare and treeless plain. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II There was a wonderful charm in this treeless land, it was so lonely and so sinister. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop Its western limit is in central Texas, where the mean annual rainfall decreases 193 to less than 20 inches, and forests give place to treeless, grass-covered plains and plateaus. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The wistful fragrant moorlands Whose smile bids panic cease, Lie treeless and cloud-shadowed In grave and lonely peace. Later Poems At the top I had a very wide prospect of inland country to the left, a treeless northern-looking scene, all green and brown with many lakes reflecting the sunshine. The Spy in Black The Park and its vicinity stood out as a veritable oasis in an almost treeless region of open rolling topography, with a short-grass type of vegetation dominating. Observations on the Mississippi Kite in Southwestern Kansas In this dry, treeless region of southern California only a little water is needed to cover the bare valley bottoms with verdure. A-Birding on a Bronco The rainfall is too small to insure forest growths; the land is treeless, except along the streams, and irrigation is necessary for successful agriculture. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z It was on a treeless prairie, sweeping away as far as the eye could see on all sides. Campmates A Story of the Plains They are of limestone formation, dry, sterile and treeless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" They wandered by treeless roads that led to the hills, and to the grassy solitudes that seemed made to be walked over hand in hand. Plashers Mead A Novel The island is a barren, treeless waste, surrounded by rocks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" The plateaus, like the prairies, are treeless in their most characteristic portions, but the larger rivers winding across them are margined in many instances by giant cottonwoods. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Buffalo chips were a most important article of fuel on the almost treeless plains, and this is only a partial list of the useful articles furnished to the Indians by this animal. Campmates A Story of the Plains Low, rolling hills and broad plains, treeless and almost waterless; dry, hot and desolate in the summer, and covered with more or less snow in the winter, form the habitat of the Angora. Practical Angora Goat Raising The treeless part of the plains, the prairie proper, has a triangular shape with an area twice as large as that of Great Britain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" Cottonwood, elm and oak became frequent as they entered the valley of the Verdigris and great stretches of forest-dotted park enchanted the eye and gave rest to tiresome monotony of treeless plain. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter Owing to the dryness of the climate in southern California and adjacent portions of Mexico, the deeply alluvial-filled valleys are treeless, and agriculture is only possible with the aid of irrigation. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z How they longed to be among them, and with what joy did they at length leave the treeless country of which they were so tired and enter the timbered foot-hills! Campmates A Story of the Plains The settlement of these treeless regions means the successful growth on every farm of at least several hundred trees. The Greater Republic A History of the United States It consists of wide rolling treeless plains scarred by the beds of many rivers, often dry for a great part of the year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" Bare cornfields and treeless wastes spread forth uninviting landscape, marked at intervals with the houses of the ambitious ranchmen, who, by preoccupation or purchase, obtained title to the soil. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter By two o’clock in the afternoon the men had crossed the Buffalo and marched to Kopje-allein through a bare and treeless country. The Young Colonists A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars Already the line of low hills hard by was indistinct in the growing gloom, and a far-reaching expanse of cold and treeless plains made up a surrounding as mournful and depressing as could be. The Induna's Wife The jungle had disappeared, and in its place stretched a treeless plain before them, which was covered with tall and bleached grass of the last summer’s growth. My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa The red ball of the sun was already half behind the treeless sky line, and away over the plain the brown and weather-beaten walls of Renshaw’s uninviting homestead had just come into view. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt In and about the houses, and around the town, was a more or less treeless, open plain, while surrounding it on every side were ridges and mountains which had a most imposing effect. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War "O how full of refreshment is our German life!" cried Eric; "the active, industrious people enjoy themselves in the evening, which brings coolness and shade to the treeless vineyards." Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Beneath lay a great panorama of desolate rolling plain and craggy spurs—treeless, forbidding—with here and there a kraal, dotted at intervals, symmetrical in its circular ring-fences. The White Shield A few moments later they emerged into the still twilight of the treeless plain. Red Nails The city was a vast mass of tumbled masonry sprawled on treeless, forgotten hills. The Next Time We Die Standing there among the dry mimosa bushes which fringe the river bank, her eyes wander meditatively forth over the brown and treeless plains beyond. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion And now a small treeless glade stopped the stalker. Warrior of the Dawn The whole region was flat and treeless, with the exception of one hill of moderate size that rose from the sandy soil very near the stream on the left wing of the Romans. The Scarlet Banner The town was gay with many colored posters, showing fierce animals wandering together over vast treeless plains, and many-hued lithographs of men risking their lives on the high trapeze. Dick Hamilton's Fortune The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son The country about Minneconjou was very open, almost all rolling, treeless prairie, and its hard, winding roads could be seen criss-crossing the gray-green surface in many a mile. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade Back of the beach the land rose in long, sweeping hillocks, treeless but green. The Destroying Angel While the lumber industry has found a place in every section of the country except the treeless plains, it was the pineries of the Lake States which furnished most of its romance. Paul Bunyan and His Loggers This happened at the Salt Field,--a treeless, shrubless waste on the edge of the desert five thousand paces west of Decimum. The Scarlet Banner A desolate, treeless waste extended on all sides, farther than the eye could reach. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 Here was refuge, indeed, for the wandering creatures of the treeless prairie that rolled away from the tops of the cliffs. The Story of the Trapper Most fair then was the treeless land, and very far off seemed the sin and sorrow of life. Jan Vedder's Wife Two hundred feet below, a treeless valley wound out and in among rounded tree-clad domes of granite. The Vision of Elijah Berl It was a barren, treeless region, where the water-courses dried up in the summer, or shrank to muddy pools. Dusty Star He arrived one night in a blinding smother which whined down over the treeless wastes, driving men indoors before its fury. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure Basins at the heads of canyons in the high mountains are usually treeless, on account of the great depth of snow which accumulates in them during the winter. The Forests of Mount Rainier National Park The bare, brown, treeless land called him with a hundred voices, and thoughts of Nanna came like a small bird winging the still, blue air. Prisoners of Conscience The children played at home in ordinary times, but in the long vacation they played in the quadrangle, a grassy, treeless enclosure, but a very garden of delight to them. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind Farther up he knew the sight would change into an almost treeless expanse of green prairies, gashed by scored bluffs of clay. Bring Me His Ears There is a placid monotone about its bare treeless scenery—an unbroken pastoral stillness on the sloping braes and hillsides, as they rise, fall, and bend in a uniformly deep colouring. In the Border Country Out of the bitter cold and dreary snow fields, trackless and treeless, whereon we had wandered starving and uncertain, we looked down on a broad wooded valley sheltering everything within it. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas The middle distance was dotted with half a dozen "follies" "for sale," each with its small bunch of workmen's cottages, some empty, some full, alas! and all treeless and grassless under the blazing sun. John March, Southerner Everywhere, right, left, in front or rear, so far as the bright moonlight permitted his vision to extend, was the same dead level of treeless plain. Through Apache Lands On the east, it occupies that extended and peculiar domain of high plateaus, treeless plains and alkali barrens, known as the Great American Desert. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century Not that the country was altogether treeless before Scott's day. In the Border Country The country to which I refer was a level and treeless plateau over which the winds cut like a whip. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers The frame of the picture is that supplied by the originally treeless plains and valleys of the South Island. A History of the English Church in New Zealand Heavy clouds overspread the heavens, and a moaning wind crept out of the mountain-passes of the Big Horn range and came sweeping down across the treeless prairie. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. The treeless plateau over which the train rolls, hour after hour, is the result of a great uplift. The So-called Human Race They were long-hair Indians, and horse Indians, accustomed to the rough buffalo chase, and a wide range over vast treeless spaces. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women Although surrounded by unusual fertility and luxuriance for an interior town, the low mud-houses and treeless streets give Kirshehr that same thirsty and painfully uniform appearance which characterizes every village or city in Asiatic Turkey. Across Asia on a Bicycle It looked out upon the village street—a rough, unkempt sort of track—and on its other side the ground rose abruptly to some height, but treeless and grassless. Four Ghost Stories From the gleaming mountains and treeless plains below Jimbo thought there rose a hollow roar like the mocking laughter of an immense multitude of people, shaking with mirth. Jimbo A Fantasy On each side of the road now lay treeless, green Alpine meadows, boldly arched slopes, from which arose a whole world of glistening white mountains, with glaciers, pinnacles and rocky peaks. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Excepting these, the immediate coast, for five or six hundred miles that we skirted it, was absolutely treeless. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 Even the air of Cyprus had something in it not far from frost, and the treeless hills seemed blighted by the clouded and inhospitable sky. Memoirs of Life and Literature It is formed of sheer hills of rock, treeless and exposed. With the French in France and Salonika This was but the beginning of a wild treeless descent towards the ocean. Clark's Field She stared at the Venn, at the bare, treeless, tortuous path with burning impatient eyes. The Son of His Mother Their figures--his thick-set, a massive tree-trunk, hers a delicate leaf blown about by the wind--could be seen afar off in the flat, treeless field. Absolution It was green as a lawn, that dry, treeless desert with its millions of evenly spaced creosote bushes; but as the sun rose higher it turned blood-red like an omen of evil to come. Shadow Mountain It is a level plain, for the most part treeless, and with nothing to break the view but the mud villages, which are the same colour as the soil. Through Russian Snows A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow The heat on the open and treeless plain became unbearable. In Desert and Wilderness She would have shuddered at its desolate, limitless sweep, treeless, shelterless, had not the dim forms of the distant peaks she loved so well rose just beyond. Money Magic A Novel They came out on that spot in which all the wood-paths converged, that treeless ridge that rose like a great white altar. The Side Of The Angels A Novel How or where he got it is a mystery; it seems to be in some way the gift of those great, smooth, flowery, treeless, dimpled hills. Ways of Nature The hill which rose gloomily in the background was treeless and inky black. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba Unfortunately they entered afterwards upon a plain, entirely treeless, covered with high heather and tufts of dried grass. In Desert and Wilderness The low banks of the river were now almost treeless, except that here and there grew stunted willow, not more than three feet in height. Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas Sauntering and pausing, he came up to the high, treeless ridge he had last visited on the day he asked Lois to marry him. The Side Of The Angels A Novel In a treeless country birds that sing on the perch elsewhere will sing on the wing. Ways of Nature The island seemed absolutely treeless, covered only with sedge and shingle and grass. Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters At sunset they drew up on a mesa, high above the treeless, broken country through which they had been riding all day, and saw Glendora in the valley below them. The Duke Of Chimney Butte The treeless character of this section of country is not without a depressing influence, while the want of water is only too manifest everywhere. Aztec Land Having reached the treeless ridge, she emerged on that high altar on which, not twenty-four hours earlier, he had sunk face downward in the snow. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Democracies must not be content to leave the ideals of health and beauty to artists and a leisured class; that is the way into a treeless, waterless desert. Another Sheaf The vast plains are treeless save for the plantations round the house of Major Pike, who has shown what can be done to reclaim the land, but his excellent example has attracted no imitators. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule They were in fairly smooth country, stretches of thin grasslands and broken barrens, but beyond them, a few miles, the hills rose, treeless and dun, offering refuge for the one who fled. The Duke Of Chimney Butte These coal measures are particularly valuable in a country many parts of which are treeless and without economical fuel. Aztec Land Wagons trains strung out across the treeless land like huge, creeping serpents moving lazily in the sun. A Mountain Boyhood The parish is located in a low, treeless plain bordering the North Sea. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark The enormous plain of Castile, treeless, sun-struck, empty of living thing, made her words eloquent. The Spanish Jade They are swardless and treeless, though in two places I found a few blades of coarse, tawny-green grass; and patches of sombre shrubbery, two and a half feet high, were not wanting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 The horses took fright, plunged aside, then tore with the carriage towards a treeless melancholy-looking plain. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 Now the trail divides, and we take the northern fork, turning soon into the open mouth of the W�di Sha�b, a broad, grassy valley between high and treeless hills. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit Ramsay, too, is a dweller among these treeless bogs, and is engaged, during his leisure, on a translation of Anacreon which will never be finished, or, if finished, will never be published. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The land was Great Plains country, treeless, barren, and rolling. The Hoofer I The Kettle Hole Ranch house faces a wide, treeless valley and is backed by an equally bare hill. They of the High Trails At last we found their trail leading into the grassy uplands; but the possibility of finding wapiti, these animals of the forests, on those treeless slopes seemed too absurd even to consider. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' Such another scene of desolation does not exist on the American continent; treeless mountains on either side, brown and sombre to their very tops; no signs of life were to be seen anywhere. Frontier service during the rebellion or, A history of Company K, First Infantry, California Volunteers It is a far cry from Palestine to the Shetland creeks and voes, but the voice of the lowly Nazarene effectually reached the Celts and Norsemen of these treeless storm-lashed isles. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland He blinked around at the gaunt and treeless land. The Hoofer A little to the right, where the treeless ridge came abruptly to an end, gleamed a considerable stretch of water. In the Morning of Time All day we had been riding over rolling, treeless uplands, and late in the afternoon we had halted on the summit of a hill overlooking the Tola River valley. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' One moment he saw the thick twisted trunk of a mulga tree with a few broken branches, standing out on an otherwise treeless plain; the next it had gone completely. In the Musgrave Ranges Looking at the strip of sky revealed by the treeless stretch above the waters, he saw a phenomenon in the upper air. The Tale of Timber Town |
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