subalpine fir
noun
: a medium-sized fir (Abies lasiocarpa) of subalpine regions of North America having bluish-green white-lined needles
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In the afternoon, after weeks of sunshine, severe thunderstorms suddenly rolled over the forest’s vast tracts of black and white spruce, subalpine fir, jack pine, and aspens.
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Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
One of Neil’s most celebrated trees, a subalpine fir, has a sharp spire of deadwood rising high above the foliage mass, like a skyscraper poking through clouds.
—Robert Moor, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
Traverse a lakeshore forest of lodgepole pine and subalpine fir, and scan the lower slopes of Altyn Peak near the Many Glacier Hotel for moose, grizzlies, and bighorn sheep.
—Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2020
The sites ranged from central Colorado to the Canadian border, in Montana, and contained several kinds of forests—from dry ponderosa to cool, moist woods of subalpine fir and spruce at elevations as high as 9,000 feet.
—Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 18 Apr. 2018
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Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
One of Neil’s most celebrated trees, a subalpine fir, has a sharp spire of deadwood rising high above the foliage mass, like a skyscraper poking through clouds.
—Robert Moor, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
Traverse a lakeshore forest of lodgepole pine and subalpine fir, and scan the lower slopes of Altyn Peak near the Many Glacier Hotel for moose, grizzlies, and bighorn sheep.
—Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2020
The sites ranged from central Colorado to the Canadian border, in Montana, and contained several kinds of forests—from dry ponderosa to cool, moist woods of subalpine fir and spruce at elevations as high as 9,000 feet.
—Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 18 Apr. 2018
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