| Spindle-thin trunks of Douglas fir and western larch stood in anemic, dying thickets, toppling like the flagpoles of small, failed nations. |
| We kept driving, past cedar thickets and a pasture studded with blooming prickly pear cactus. |
| High praise is due to our server, who made light work of snaking his way through the thickets of humanity. |
| Mexico's xerophilous thickets and semi-desert pastures are located in arid and semi-arid areas that account for half of our national territory. |
| They are abundant in early-successional shrub habitats and in salmonberry thickets. |
| Look for wineberries in thickets, fields, edges of woods or trails, in moist soil throughout the northeast. |
