Word: woodland
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...future Mrs. Hastrup. Running with her fiancé through a state park near her home in Easton, Mass., Stephanie L. Sawlit ’07 was sure he was going to pop the question that day—she just wasn’t sure when. The picturesque woodland setting seemed appropriate, but they returned to Sawlit’s house sans ring. That evening, at a dinner to celebrate her mother’s birthday, Sawlit, sitting next to John W. Hastrup ’06, could feel the rectangular ring box in his pocket. It wasn?...
Christopher J. Fettig, WOODLAND, CALIF...
Holmes Brannon, WOODLAND PARK, COLO...
...were stone walls that ran through fields there, and now there are secondary woods; you can feel the presence of the farmer in the past. When you come back to this country and you see the fields still intact, you think we're not that far off it becoming woodland again. I'm not into the idea of a nostalgic preservation of the British landscape. I think change has always been part of of it. But it's very interesting to have the sense of the future presented to you in a different country and come back...
...while it is important to protect our tropical forests, turning Greenland into one big woodland is a decidedly bad idea. “Large-scale afforestation”—that is, tree growth—“implemented in temperate latitudes may be largely ineffectual in mitigating global warming,” the authors write...