How to Use red spruce in a Sentence

red spruce

noun
Definition of red sprucenext
  • That includes red spruce, which make up 40 percent of the trees in the park.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2021
  • White pines, lodgepoles and red spruce grew along the shoreline.
    — Porter Fox, New York Times, 20 June 2018
  • Right now, park managers are still finding new red spruce saplings around the park, which is a good sign.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2021
  • The gray trunks of red spruce trees killed by acid rain once heavily scarred the mountain forests of the Northeast.
    — Lisa Rathke, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2018
  • But decades later, not all the environmental damage is turning around at the pace of the red spruce.
    — Lisa Rathke, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2018
  • The squirrel makes its home at elevations above 5,000 feet in conifers like red spruce and Fraser firs on north-facing slopes.
    — Karen Chávez, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2018
  • The land was degraded by the logging of its red spruce forests, which led to fires, and by artillery exercises conducted during World War II.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The result is a rare blend of hardwoods, such as red oak, sugar maple, and yellow birch, and coniferous species such as red spruce, white pine, and eastern hemlock – 32 varieties in all.
    — Moira Donovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2022
  • These trends have helped red spruce forests in New England and some fish populations, for example, recover from acid rain damage.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Richardson enrolled in Yale University’s forestry program in 1996 and a few years later threw himself into a project lopping off balsam fir and red spruce branches in the White Mountains.
    — Josie Garthwaite, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2014
  • The red spruce picnic table was set for an Anthropolgie catalogue shoot with wildflowers in glass vases, tree trunk place mats, a canopy to catch raindrops and shaggy blue rugs to warm bottoms on benches.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The red spruce picnic table was set for an Anthropolgie catalogue shoot — or a troll’s wedding to a fairy — with wildflowers in glass vases, tree trunk place mats, a canopy to catch raindrops and shaggy blue rugs to warm bottoms on benches.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 26 July 2019
  • Several millenia ago, the red spruce-fir forest dominated Southeastern United States.
    — Michael J. Bailey, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
  • The National Taiwan University operates an experimental forest here with towering cedars, red spruce, Hinoki cypress and tortoise-shell bamboo.
    — Smithsonian, 29 June 2017

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