Sentences with phrase «of deadfall»
I had started with fires in Redhill about a month after Josh died: first a small trash can in the backyard, then a pile of dried grass clippings in the woods behind my house; a stack of deadfall at a construction site, then three tires at the town dump; a few other minor lights around Redhill, until I set an old wooden shed ablaze on city park property.
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«David Liittschwager straddled his green cubic - foot frame over a decaying deadfall log in the Hallett Nature Sanctuary, a three - acre fenced - off area at the southern edge of New York's Central Park.
The first half of the film builds suspense by putting the group through a number of classic hunting situations — from the perspective of the prey — being flushed out by dogs [though these alien «dogs» have all kinds of horns, spine razors and bad attitudes]; a booby - trapped companion; wandering into deadfalls, and the like.
Contrasting the lush green fields and carefully maintained homes of the village with the dark, tangled branches and deadfall in the forest, he clearly marks out the boundaries of safety.
* Winner of IAN 2015's Outstanding Fantasy Book * Never underestimate the power of a determined witch.Letum Wood is a forest of fog and deadfall, home to the quietly famous Miss Mabel's School for Girls, a place where young witches learn the art of magic.Sixteen - year - old Bianca Monroe has inherited a deadly curse.Determined to break free before it kills her, she enrolls in the respected school to confront the cunning witch who cast the curse: Miss Mabel.Bianca finds herself faced with dark magic she didn't expect, with lessons more dangerous than she could have ever imagined.
A second thing to notice is that when one of the larger «grandfather» trees dies, and eventually falls, is that the deadfall, which for all of the world resembles a train wreck with sections of trunk the size of railcars stretching for hundreds of feet across the forest floor, can persist in this slowly decaying state for hundreds of years.
Thus the potential nutritive value that the deadfall represents to the forest and the sequoias themselves is only slowly returned to back to the soil and that therefore it is reasonable to wonder where, [aside from needle fall and cones], where all of the nutrient inputs to the ecosystem are.