Extensive horizontal mesas are capped by sedimentary formations and support woodlands of junipers, pinon, and ponderosa pines, each favoring different elevations.

* Three species of bilberry are associated with the junipers.

Although termed cedar or cedarwood oils, the most important oils of this group are produced from distilling wood of a number of different junipers and cypresses ( Juniperus and Cupressus spp., of the family Cupressaceae ), rather than true cedars ( Cedrus spp., of the family Pinaceae ).

A little higher, junipers are common.

Many junipers ( e. g. J. chinensis, J. virginiana ) have two types of leaves: seedlings and some twigs of older trees have needle-like leaves 5 – 25 mm long ; and the leaves on mature plants are ( mostly ) tiny ( 2 – 4 mm long ), overlapping and scale-like.

The needle-leaves of junipers are hard and sharp, making the juvenile foliage very prickly to handle.

The junipers are divided into several sections, though ( particularly among the scale-leaved species ) which species belong to which sections is still far from clear, with research still on-going.

Provisionally, all the other junipers are included here, though they form a paraphyletic group.

Some junipers are susceptible to Gymnosporangium rust disease, and can be a serious problem for those people growing apple trees, the alternate host of the disease.

In the central part, wild olives are abundant, and especially in river valleys, there is a high diversity of flora, including ephedra, pistachios and orchards of apples and cherries, as well as wild almonds and junipers.

These are to be replaced by native species, especially junipers in the chinampa areas.

Cedar waxwings are fond of the berries of these junipers.

Old-growth Ashe junipers are different in that they have true trunks, use less water, are slow growing, less foliated and have very deep roots.

Typical examples of conifers are cedars, cypresses, douglas-firs, firs, junipers, kauris, larches, pines, redwoods, spruces, and yews.

Wetlands and heathlands with birches, junipers and orchids growing wild are marks of this rustic landscape.

The sparse woodlands of widely scattered western junipers and lodgepole pines are interrupted by patches of montaine chaparral species such as Pinemat Manzanita, Huckleberry Oak, and Mountain Pride Penstemon clinging to the expanses of barren rock.

Selected cultivars of pines, firs, spruces, larches, hemlocks, false cypress, arborvitae and junipers are displayed in a garden setting.

Near Stockdale beck are fragments of ancient woodland on steep slopes and, as in nearby Baysdale, a few junipers can be found.

The shoots are fairly thick compared to most junipers, 1. 5 – 2 mm diameter.

The shoots are fairly thick compared to most junipers, between 1. 5 and 2 millimeters ( 0. 059-0. 079 in.

In junipers ( the primary hosts ) ( see photo ), some species of the fungus form a ball like gall about 2 – 4 cm in diameter which produces a set of orange tentacle-like spore tubes called telial horns.

The fungus does not cause serious damage to junipers, but apple and pear trees can suffer serious loss of fruit production due to the effects of the fungus.

The severity of Cedar-apple rust disease can be managed by removal of basidiospore producing galls from junipers or the application of protective fungicides to junipers.

Underwater archaeology of the caldera basin to the north shows that the area was once densely forested with junipers when it was above sea level.

As that industry died out in the 19th century, however, the junipers rapidly recovered their numbers.

In the 1940s, it was realised that two species of scale insect, Lepidosaphes newsteadi and Carulaspis minima, had accidentally been introduced, and were rapidly killing off the junipers, which had no immunity to their toxicological effect.

A study of mistletoe in junipers concluded that more juniper berries sprout in stands where mistletoe is present, as the mistletoe attracts berry-eating birds which also eat juniper berries.

* The common junipers grow at elevations above the rhododendrons.

Since juniper prefers a more alkaline soil, it is sometimes possible to locate the margins of the ancient sea from a distance by looking for the distinctive light green color of junipers growing on the more alkaline oceanic dolomite deposits between the island hills.

Here the Ponderosa Pine forest transitions into the high desert, characterized by arid land, junipers, sagebrush, and bitter-brush.

Juniperus: Needle-leaf junipers.

Sabina: Scale-leaf junipers.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a program of stabilization payments to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates in order to stabilize the mining of lead and zinc by small domestic producers on public, Indian, and other lands as provided in this Act.

The house and lands of the poet Thomas Tickell were sold in 1790 to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin Society for them to establish Ireland's first Botanic Gardens.

Crusader missions to the Baltic lands would establish the State of the Teutonic Order.

The internal conflicts among Indian kingdoms gave opportunities to the European traders to gradually establish political influence and appropriate lands.

From his new capital, King Alfonso began a series of campaigns to establish control over all the lands north of the Douro.

Since the most valuable real property is located near the downtowns of the cities, the paracaidistas usually establish slums at unoccupied lands at the outskirts of the cities.

* February 20 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, intending to establish a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River, lands with 200 surviving colonists at Matagorda Bay on the Texas coast, believing the Mississippi near ( Texas Handbook ).

* Abd-ar-Rahman I lands in Spain, where the next year he will establish a new Umayyad dynasty.

Many events illustrate violence and resistance as Aborigines sought to protect their lands from invasion and as settlers and pastoralists attempted to establish their presence.

They establish a regular and recurring presence on a vast amount of public lands, roads, and recreation sites.

Fruela I ( 757-68 ) is succeeded by Aurelio ( 768-74 ), Peter of Cantabria's grandson, who will establish the court in lands of what is today the district of San Martin del Rey Aurelio, which previously belonged to Langreo, between the years of his reign.

He had intended to reverse some of the worst government policies and provide ways for American Indians to re-establish sovereignty and self-government, to reduce the losses of reservation lands, and establish ways for Indians to build economic self-sufficiency.

Beginning in 1492 with the voyages of Christopher Columbus, the Kingdom of Spain sought to establish missions to convert the pagans in Nueva España (" New Spain ", consisting of the Caribbean, Mexico and most of what today is the Southwestern United States ) to Roman Catholicism in order to facilitate colonization of these lands awarded to Spain by the Catholic Church, including that region known as Alta California.

However, given the remote locations and the inherent difficulties in communicating with the territorial governments, power was transferred to the viceroys of New Spain to grant lands and establish missions in North America.

While some of his actions toward the St. Lawrence Iroquoians were dishonourable, he did try at times to establish friendship with them and other native peoples living along the St. Lawrence River — an indispensable preliminary to French settlement in their lands.

Human sacrifice was not a particularly common occurrence among the Germanic peoples, being resorted to in exceptional situations arising from crises of an environmental ( crop failure, drought, famine ) or social ( war ) nature, often thought to derive at least in part from the failure of the king to establish and / or maintain prosperity and peace ( árs ok friðar ) in the lands entrusted to him.

Peada and Ealhflæd took a missionary group, including Cedd and Diuma, to establish a church in their lands.

During the surveying mission in 1815 to establish boundaries it is alleged that the American representatives provided copious amounts of libations to the British representative in order to trick him by having him establish the boundary between the United States and British lands via the False Detour Channel.

The history of Homer City dates back to the mid-18th century, when settlers began to establish homesteads on lands previously owned by six Indian nations.

With of coal lands, it was a major colliery, and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad took several years to establish it.

James IV and James V used exceptional one-off revenues, such as the forfeiture of key lands, to establish their power across their kingdom in various ways including constructing grander castles such as Linlithgow, almost invariably by extending and modifying existing fortifications.

Mr. James Blake, a magistrate, let them settle on lands in the Corozal District and helped them to establish the new crop — sugar cane.

" These cases seem clearly to establish the doctrine that all the prerogatives and privileges of the King belong to him with reference to the lands parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster in no less a degree than they do with lands which belong to him immediately in right of his Crown.