North Carolina is the leading producer of Fraser firs, and Oregon is the leading producer of both noble and Douglas firs.
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Frasier Firs sold in New York are mostly shipped from North Carolina, while Douglas Firs are largely from Pennsylvania, sellers said.
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The varieties include Douglas firs, Fraser firs, and Norfolk Island pines, and they will be bound and shipped within 10 days of being cut.
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The varieties include Douglas Firs, Fraser Firs, and Norfolk Island Pines, and they will be bound and shipped within 10 days of being cut.
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According to Simone Masserini executive director of FIRS, the IOC approached FIRS in February 215 about pitching skateboarding as an Olympic sport at Tokyo.
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During a May 24th conference call between the IOC Sport department, the ISF, and FIRS, the ISF learned that FIRS wanted to host and govern its own world championship skateboarding events.
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Balsam firs showed a northward shift over the last three decades.
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He meditated there twice a day, among the towering Douglas firs.
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Its west-side rainforest hosts plump spruce, cedar and Douglas firs.
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CWIS firs a 20 mm Vulcan cannon mounted on a swiveling base.
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Oregon's so-called "Big Firs" won the first NCAA tournament in 1939.
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The firs must have been relying on the birches somehow, Simard realized.
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Evergreens like firs and pines are shifting northward in search of cooler climes.
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Then, I am a pack of Douglas firs, our branches undulating like snakes.
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Tonight, we're going to a place where the trees are primarily Douglas firs.
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The lot is sloping and green, with firs, spruces, hemlocks and lodgepole pines.
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McAfee suggested four Caledonian pines, tall, spindly firs to remind her of Scotland.
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He was the company's firs spokesperson, and later worked on the product team.
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Out West, the region offers a variety of firs, like the noble fir.
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Cooper lost his Boy Scout enthusiasm for food and the smell of Douglas firs.
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A FIRS spokesman said the banking checks targeting defaulters began around two months ago.
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The firs will run around $115 a pop, along with $50 for a wreath.
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Fraser firs, a popular variety for Christmas trees, take about 10 years to mature.
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Whatever you call, it means thousands of people earn a living peddling firs and pines.
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"Do you know why they're cutting down the Oyamel firs my monarchs love?" she asked.
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Over the years, the elephants have gotten picky, and prefer to dine on noble firs.
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Although FIRS has never overseen an Olympic sport, the organization is an official IOC-recognized federation.
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So why are so many Ponderosa pines, Douglas firs, and quaking aspen in California's forests dying?
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But when the birches are out of the way, the firs fare worse instead of better.
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Simard's first experiment involved 80 saplings each of three species: birch, firs and cedars planted together.
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Relax among the Douglas Firs and take in views of the vineyard and the Pacific Ocean.
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After a minute it returned, zipping over the fence and into the short and stubby firs.
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Software tracks the distribution of 20,000 Fraser and Douglas firs trucked in from Canada and Pennsylvania.
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The shop features several species, including Scotch pines, Black Hill spruces; and Balsam, Fraser, and Douglas firs.
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In March, Matt Bratlien saw something odd in the spacious suburb of Silver Firs, north of Seattle.
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Oregon truffles can only be found in the roots of Douglas firs in constantly wet, forested areas.
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If you're not sure how to get started, the Nest Security Pack is an excellent firs stop.
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It took them through the trees of Forest Park—firs and hemlocks and cedars, alders and maples.
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This year, Fraser firs from the Beauce region in Canada cost the couple an extra $2400 each.
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Many of the firs were actually planted by park staff before anyone knew they would become a problem.
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Chanel skis and poles jutted from little hillocks amid 50 gray/green firs and lampposts dusted in white.
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He was three-under after 16 holes of his round, as was Zander Lombard after his firs six holes.
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While squirrel monkeys don't typically munch on trees, they've fashioned their noble firs into jungle gyms — oh what fun!
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Spruces, firs and even artificial evergreens have vanished in recent weeks, leaving behind a trail of conifer crime scenes.
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At some point in their deep past, spruces, pines, firs, and their relatives acquired a complete second set of genes.
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Guests, puddling on the floor, were arrayed around a little park planted with firs and bordered by an iron bench.
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"Firs will be the longest-lasting trees, and they're the ones with the fragrance you associate with Christmas," he said.
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The most popular varieties were Noble and Fraser firs, and consumers reported spending an average of $74.70 for a tree.
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Great blue herons nest in the towering firs and peacocks strut; relax and listen to birds fussing and fountains gurgling.
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And this is the firs time a planet has been found around a star like this, according to the researchers.
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Now, under careful watch and watering, most firs, spruces, and pines can keep their fragrant greenery for weeks, if not months.
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Working in Canada in the 1990s, Simard set out to answer a question: Why do Douglas firs need birch trees around?
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The 1938-39 Oregon team, known as the Tall Firs, was 29-5 on its way to the first NCAA championship.
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Mass Molestation Of Women On New Year's EveNo FIRs Yet,Imagine The Outrage Had It Happened In BJP Ruled State pic.twitter.
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In November, Whole Foods across the city sold seven- to eight-foot Fraser firs at a 40 percent discount, for $34.99.
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Last year, Mr. Nash sold seven- to eight-foot Fraser firs, the most popular variety, at an average price of $95.
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The Douglas firs, which are native to the island, are extremely hearty and will keep going for a very long time.
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Horseback riding aficionados can stop at Dao House for a two-hour ride through the Ponderosa pines and Douglas firs ($63).
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The research still has miles to go however, so it'll be some time before christmas tree farms have firs that grow themselves.
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That means they typically live in places where trees like pines, spruces, and firs are common—cooler or mountainous places, for example.
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Thus, the emerald ash borer feeds exclusively on ash trees, and the Douglas-fir beetle, as its name suggests, prefers Douglas firs.
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Here the nonprofit Ancient Forest Alliance, has recently completed a boardwalk and stairs that lead to ancient Douglas firs and red cedars.
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If you're a true Redditor, you know that the r/trees subreddit has nothing to do with oaks, douglas firs or maples.
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That compares with FIRs filed for 37 percent of reported mobile phone thefts in Delhi and 45 percent in Mumbai, it said.
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Amazon is selling full-size Christmas trees, such as Norfolk Island pines and Douglas firs, starting in November, according to the Associated Press.
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In the East Room, there are four more gigantic firs, hung with dozens of handmade paper ornaments representing the different regions of America.
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Holiday firs bring the scents, hues and textures of the great boreal forest, storehouse of carbon and home to billions of migratory animals.
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If we had understood that he could be out in on year, we would not have agreed to the deal in the firs place.
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And Samish Island, nestled dazzlingly between two bays and enclosed by a ring of thick Douglas firs, is a place where people don't pry.
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FIRS, based in Rome, governs various roller-skating and inline disciplines, including roller hockey, which was a demonstration sport at the 153 Barcelona Olympics.
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His nickname, Granen, means Christmas tree; at the height of summer, firs (mostly artificial) have been put up in several places in his honor.
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As far as a tree that will stay fresh and holds on to its needles, Fraser firs are at the top of the list.
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Adult trees have better survival mechanisms to deal with poor climate conditions, but intense wildfires are wiping out these Ponderosa pines and Douglas firs.
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So while it's certainly dramatic, in a Charlie Brown sort of way, to imagine a dearth of eligible firs across the country, fear not.
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One frustrating result is that police stations are often reluctant to issue First Information Reports (FIRs), the necessary beginning to most legal action in India.
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Even as the pines succumb to beetles and the firs go up in smoke, the giants look able to endure—at least for a while.
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"We believe that the fine should be treated as part of cost of running the business but the FIRS thinks otherwise," MTN Nigeria's spokesman said.
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On a recent visit, we met with Randy Pratt, the farm's operations manager, who walked us through fragrant rows of Douglas, Fraser and Canaan firs.
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I saw this firs- hand with a CEO who tried to get into numerous company-betting lawsuits that we knew weren't in his best interest.
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"There is an urgent need for police departments to address the long-standing obstructions and violations by police in registering FIRs," Sarkar and Mukhopadhyay wrote.
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There isn't just one type of Christmas tree; there are balsams and pines and firs and the like, and every region has its own preference.
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I can feel echoes of that not-sound in this album, born as it was beneath red alders and Douglas firs, and it's calling me home.
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According to The Associated Press, Amazon will start selling the trees sometime in November, letting buyers pick between Douglas firs, Norfolk Island pines, and other options.
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I'm talking, of course, about Christmas tree shopping—the widely practiced pastime of publicly scrutinizing spruces, pines, and firs in search of the ideal yuletide centerpiece.
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Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Chairman Babatunde Fowler told a parliamentary committee that banking checks on tax defaulters had resulted in 23.35 billion naira being raised.
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Bitcoin price hit $10,000 — a record high — for the firs time just days ago and the price of Bitcoin is up more than 800% this year.
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"A drop in numbers could be due to under-reporting or not filing of FIRs (complaints)," said Priti Patkar, co-founder of anti-trafficking charity Prerana.
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French said this year's crop of Nordmann Firs, which cater for 95 percent of Wick Farm's market base, is made up of seven-year-old trees.
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Conifers include evergreen, fluffy up-and-down trees like firs, while deciduous trees shed their leaves annually and tend to be top-heavy with barer trunks.
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On the way, we stumbled upon the Royal Roads Forest, a hauntingly beautiful woodland where some of the largest Douglas firs on the island are found.
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Hendrix says that the ISF responded by telling FIRS and IOC Sport that a new venue and new organizer for those competitions wasn't on the negotiating table.
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Jen Curlee, who has set up a black tree in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for seven years, tells GMA that it is often more adaptable than traditional firs.
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Like the birch supporting the firs, the surrounding forest was supporting the tree stump with water and nutrients that it couldn't move on its own, without leaves.
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In the firs season, Steve is still lying about how old he is to get better parts, and there are lots of references to body changes, etc.
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Around me, the sun filtered through dense canopies of leaves, and mosses hung, beardlike, from Sitka spruces and Douglas firs, turning the landscape into a Seussian fantasia.
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Our customers have learned that [Fraser firs] stay fresh, they smell best and stay green and hold ornaments the best, so they usually end up taking those.
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When it's time for the firs to be dragged to the curb, that's when the windchill smacks you in the face and freezes you down to your soul.
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One gorgeously decorated Christmas tree would be impressive considering the turn around time — but no, Ray's seasonal decor included six (!) fancy firs in all different shapes and sizes.
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Since they are a little short on firs in the southwest state, the city of Chandler makes due by lighting up a stack of decorated tumbleweeds each year.
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The trees, including Douglas firs and Norfolk Island pines, will be shipped within 10 days of being chopped and delivered in a normal looking Amazon box, sans water.
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The Firs Bible and Missionary Conference is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization that ended 2017 with $4.6 million in assets, according to state records obtained by the newspaper.
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When they are 2 feet tall, Mr. Silver selects the best specimens, and then trims back the neighboring firs to give the future Christmas trees room to grow.
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The wall of his library is taken up by a photograph depicting tall firs and pine needle paths that lead to ponds at Ms. Stewart's home in Maine.
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On a recent Saturday evening, he strapped on a gas mask and spray-painted 18 Douglas firs (nine purple, nine white) alongside County Road 519 in Warren County.
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Environmental activists sent 29 formal protests to the Bureau of Land Management and organized rallies to stall the harvest of Douglas Firs and Ponderosa Pines spread over 318 acres.
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The "right" way, as I understand it, is something like wearing itchy wool scarves to cut down Douglas Firs with your photogenic family, then going to a million parties.
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That news comes courtesy of The Associated Press, which notes that the seven-foot-tall Douglas firs and Norfolk Island pines will be sent via Amazon box, sans water.
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It was July, but already the woods — birches, firs and pines — were becoming autumnal, the tall branches naked at places, the bodies of downed trees strewn around in others.
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Taylor told the outlet that he was aware that The Firs was a faith-based organization that had a doctrinal statement condemning homosexuality on the website when he applied.
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Western red cedars, Douglas firs, ponds, peacocks, frothy fountains and stone bridges (one is named for Carr): It is an enchanting park, and, occasionally, a place of high drama.
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Between those striking firs, he built a tall, narrow treehouse that would become his home for eight years as he built his venture into what would eventually become Tofurky.
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The ice crystals had higher than usual water levels, making for thick, heavy snow that weighed on the 60- to 100-foot pines and firs that dot the Cascades.
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"We have many concerns about it," she said, noting that the firs are already stressed by climate change and illegal logging, which persists despite years of efforts to stop it.
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The ferns on the ground became more lush and dense, and the mosses and lichens covering the Oregon maples, Sitka spruces and Douglas firs more varied and more intensely green.
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The 1890s log house was on an astonishing site: next to a lake full of trout, deep within a thousand acres of unlogged forests of Douglas firs and Ponderosa pines.
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On a crisp winter morning, while my daughters lingered over pancakes with their grandparents, I drove a couple of miles past houses nestled among incense cedars, Ponderosa pines, and Douglas firs.
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As the discussion about which organization would oversee Olympic skating ramped up, many in the industry criticized FIRS for a lack of experience in skateboarding; their history is in roller skating.
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The company, which operates the Millennium, Grand Millennium, Copthorne and Kingsgate hotels, said hotel revenue fell 2.9 percent to 165 million pounds ($240 million) in the firs quarter ended March 31.
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The Omaha, Nebraska-based railroad reported firs-quarter net income of $979 million or $1.16 per share, down nearly 15 percent from $1.15 billion or $1.30 per share a year earlier.
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As I walked through rows and rows of Fraser firs, looking for the perfect seven-foot-tall Christmas tree for my boyfriend's family, I couldn't help but feel pangs of guilt.
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Outdoor space: The 0.17-acre property is landscaped with native plants and studded with century-old Douglas firs through which it is possible to have seasonal views of Mount St. Helens.
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FIRS and the ISF eventually agreed to jointly run the Tokyo 2020 Skateboarding Commission, a short-term Band-Aid to what promises to be a protracted legal fight over who owns skateboarding.
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Through these raids in recent months, HMCL has seized over 2,75,000 spurious spare parts & counterfeit labels and FIRs have been filed against all the counterfeiters at respective police stations in each state.
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Jace Taylor, 18, said he was expecting to start work this weekend as a camp counselor at Fircreek, a local day camp run by a faith-based nonprofit organization called The Firs.
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From industry to infrastructure, from urban development to conservation, Rutkow traces how the pines, white oaks, giant firs and orange groves across the nation's landscape influenced the way its citizens have lived.
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While the company's first spacecraft Unity has flown to space twice already, this second spacecraft put weight on its wheels for this firs time – signifying it completed all major parts of assembly.
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I tried to open up the northeast and southwest corners by dumping the black squares beside YALE and FIRS, but couldn't find any decent options for the long spot at 28-Down.
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In Virginia Beach, where Bill Schratwieser and his wife run a gift shop and tree stand, around 20 Fraser firs went missing this month, a major financial blow to the small business.
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A pale blue sky showed through the forest's old-growth conifers—sugar and ponderosa pines, Douglas firs and incense cedars—as the researchers tramped over dry ground, carpeted with dead needles and cones.
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FIRS, on the other hand, said that its working relationship with the IOC and membership within SportAccord, an umbrella organization for international sports federations, offered critical footing for the sport's successful Olympic debut.
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The ISF members on that conference call, including Ream and Hendrix, felt that FIRS was angling its relationship with the IOC in an effort gain control of the biggest competitions in the sport.
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MTN Nigeria said it had requested the judicial review after the Nigerian tax authority, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), disagreed with the company's accounting treatment of the fine as an operating cost.
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This is readily apparent at Yosemite in the drive from the valley floor, where the green hillsides are dotted — in some cases in large numbers — with the brown of dead pines and firs.
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Around them there seemed to be an infinite sampling of vegetation: ferns and clover and scrub and bracken giving way to maples and firs and oaks and hemlocks covered in lichen and moss.
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When we first laid eyes on the 30-foot tree outside Kensington Palace and the three gorgeous firs installed in Buckingham Palace's Marble Hall, we immediately wished that we could have decorations that extravagant.
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So, although the state produces only about 300,000 fresh-cut trees annually, some of this year's crop of balsam, white and Fraser firs may be headed to Pennsylvania and New Jersey to meet demand.
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A couple of weeks before Christmas Day that year, Mr. Carr loaded two ox sleds with "thrifty young firs and spruces" and headed for the city, according to an 1878 New York Daily Tribune article.
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But we're at too low of an elevation to grow Fraser firs — we drive up to a different farm in Tennessee where they have them, buy 'em, bring 'em down, once or twice a week.
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"We take complaints of crime very seriously, and we do all that we can to file FIRs quickly," a spokesman for the Mumbai police told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, rejecting the findings of the survey.
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Broadly speaking, a warmer, drier climate should force trees uphill and to higher latitudes; the Ponderosa pine will climb from the montane to the subalpine zones, displacing or finding refuge among white firs and lodgepole pines.
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" Driving along the highway flanked by towering Douglas firs evokes the show's opening scenes in which the esoteric FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) drives into Twin Peaks marveling at the trees, saying "they're really something.
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LA is no slouch, but it does feel closer to my upbringing amongst the Douglas Firs of BC. When I came back to the west coast, I was more at peace with the frequency of the city.
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There will also be changes in which trees will be found at different elevations, meaning mountains will lose evergreens like firs and spruces which not only help keep temperatures cool, but also are more resistant to wildfire.
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Under the shade of ponderosa pines and Douglas firs, we laid out our rain jackets like blankets and fished snacks out of our daypacks and turned over fossils, wondering what otherworldly beings had been there before us.
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Germans are credited with starting the tradition of Christmas trees in the 16th century, and to this day many cities select the finest firs from local parks and forests to cut down and decorate for the holiday.
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Set a few steps outside the hotel's lodge, an elevated pinewood and glass cabin — Miramonti's forest sauna — allows guests to enjoy Finnish heat while surveying the surrounding copse of firs and the mountain crests in the distance.
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Right now, the softwood market, mostly firs and spruce in Maine, he said, "has gone belly up, but I'll still be cross-country skiing on our property on Saturday morning, and we can still make maple syrup there."
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Yields on 10-year U.S. Treasuries have risen above 3.10 percent this week for the firs time since July 2011, continuing to weigh on stocks as investors considered whether U.S. government bonds might be more attractive than riskier equities.
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Around three-quarters of forests in France are privately owned and often grow a higher quantity of firs and spruce, which have a growth cycle decades faster than oak or other hardwoods, making them better to harvest for profit.
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Nearly a decade later, Americans are spending freely again, and the firs, spruces and pines that went into the ground during the recession have reached the seven-to-eight-foot height that makes them ideal for holiday living rooms.
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As a kid, I used to hang out there, bird-watching, reading from a slender volume of Henry David Thoreau's journal and soaking up Transcendentalist vibes from the big glacial bowl of clear water ringed with firs and footpaths.
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Her most famous book, "The Country of the Pointed Firs" (1896), is a short novel made up of compressed sections that describe the rocks, trees and gardens of the coastline of Maine and the characters who live among them.
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And on David Lynch's creepy, brilliant "Twin Peaks," he played Dale Cooper, the cherry-pie-inhaling, coffee-swilling F.B.I. special agent who waxes poetic about the majestic beauty of Douglas firs and turns out to have a dangerous past.
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"When North Carolina and Oregon's plantings were down significantly, there was a lot of Fraser firs growing in Michigan and Wisconsin and even Canada, so they were able to pick up the slack and ship in trees," he explains.
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We'd seen these guys in mundane situations before, like when Thor discovered coffee in his firs film, but this one really felt like a peek behind the curtain, at what these characters' "real" lives might be like when we weren't looking.
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In "The Hidden Life of Trees," the German forester Peter Wohlleben anthropomorphizes trees — firs are "crafty," beeches are competitive — even (convincingly) making the case that trees are social beings who create families that share resources and care for their young.
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Dark planks had been sunk in the plaster ceiling to give the impression of half-timbering, and there were plastic cuckoo clocks over the bar and the empty fireplace, where they competed for space with a needlepoint of a cluster of snowy firs.
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Ninety-six years after being founded, FIRS will finally oversee an Olympic sport as the officially recognized governing body of Olympic Skateboarding—but it will not govern the world championships of skateboarding; the ISF will handle Olympic competition formatting, judging, and course design.
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DEEP in Oregon's Elliott State Forest, past groves of 241-foot Douglas firs and bigleaf maple trees dripping with emerald green Spanish moss, Joe Metzler pulls over his Toyota truck and peeks over a precipitous slope covered in tree stumps for signs of elk.
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But that didn't stop the IOC from politely asking the International Roller Sports Federation (FIRS) to see about governing skateboarding so it could be included in the Olympics, despite the existence of the International Skate Federation (ISF, and I'm sorry about all the acronyms).
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The picture mimics a moment from a video the White House released Sunday evening of the first lady touring the decorations, opening Day 1 of the Advent calendar, marveling at the lights and the firs, sprinkling a few snowflakes on the branches of a tree.
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" If it gets particularly balmy in, say, the South, where a high percentage of Fraser firs are grown, Leopold surmised that "species rarely grown now, like Turkish fir, will become more common as this and other species are better adapted to warmer and drier conditions.
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A small masterpiece, the eponymous story "Suicide Woods" revolves around a suicide therapy group whose leader, an aging hipster called Mr. Engel, uses the "400 acres of firs and hemlocks and cedars" known as "the suicide woods" to soothe the emotional wounds of his fragile charges.
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A long brewing dispute over the largest undisturbed boreal forest on Earth, nearly 2-million square miles of pines and firs stretched across northern Canada, began to heat up this week when 13 American environmental advocacy groups wrote the governments of Ontario and Quebec urging them to support new conservation efforts.
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He's frustrated by what he calls the "general scandal" of Congress incentivizing companies to get out of their pension obligations — firs by allowing companies to present retirees with an option that isn't as good as it looks, and then by increasing the incentive to do so by raising PBGC premiums.
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In Lunenburg County, a chunk of Nova Scotia pockmarked by lakes and patches of balsam firs, Silver's Farm hugs a hill with 45 acres of farmland splayed out in front and 653 acres of Christmas trees behind, all growing naturally and tightly "like the hairs on a dog's back," said Wayne Silver.
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Or might he just have counseled me to hold on to what happened as fodder for stories I would someday write, stories created away from the din of edgy personalities prowling the halls of America's most prestigious magazine, stories I would eventually write while looking out the window to my native country of pointed firs?
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NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia — There they were in the midst of what looked like a spooky old-growth forest (Princess Park, actually, mere blocks from upscale suburban homes here), surrounded by clumps of moss, overgrown ferns and gigantic Douglas firs, looking for clues of yet another allegedly paranormal crime, the kind they used to solve almost every week.
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And then, with a truck full of papers, they crisscross the county, past the tall cedars and Douglas firs of the mountains, and across the Sierra Valley, dotted with junipers and cottonwoods, stopping at every shop and gas station, emptying newspaper machines of last week's edition, collecting money and dropping off fresh bundles of The Messenger.
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