Word: firs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...substance, I believe we won't have a new line." What Gur envisions are rolling defensive positions for Israel's armor and artillery, which would be backed up by long-range missiles and high-flying aircraft, including the F-15 and Israel's own K fir fighter...
...even insects. With help from the U.S. Forest Service and Penn State University, Jones imported and planted carefully selected species of trees from all over the world, seeking out those that might grow in the acid, stony soil. He brought in evergreens-pines from Austria, Scotland and Norway, Douglas fir from the Pacific Northwest-because they hide the still-furrowed landscape all year round. He planted Chinese chestnuts, which also thrive in otherwise inhospitable earth, and hybrid poplars that grow so quickly "you have to jump back after planting them so that you don't get poked...
...time bomb in Maine's north woods armed with a fuse set to explode it in a month. Awakened by the warming sun, billions of tiny spruce-budworm larvae will hatch and turn into ravenous caterpillars, ready to eat all the needles and buds on spruce and balsam fir, hemlock and tamarack. Before their appetite is sated, the budworms are expected to chew their way through some 6 million acres of conifers. For 3.5 million of those acres-an area larger than Connecticut-this will be the third straight year of defoliation, and even healthy trees cannot survive such...
...unintentional irony, serenaded Ford with the University of Michigan fight song, The Victors. Hirohito took Ford to the moated Imperial Palace to meet Empress Nagako and exchange gifts: from the royal couple, a 2½%-ft. Kutani porcelain plate; from Ford, a Steuben crystal work engraved with pine and fir trees...
...Park Service's new policy, one of the parks in which natural fires would have done the most good is one where fires have been rigorously controlled: California's Sequoia National Park. There, if natural fires had been allowed to sweep through the area's firs while they were young, the trees would have burned without involving the great redwoods. But now the fir forest has grown so tall that the tops of the firs reach the Sequoias' lowest branches. Should a fire sweep through the firs, it would probably also ignite the redwoods, destroying...