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  • Here in some areas of northern Michigan they clearcut 640 acre sections of National Forest all at once, but then go back, turn the soil and plant jackpine trees, so that no aspen or anything else for that matter grows ...

    Habitat in the Making 2009

  • Here in some areas of northern Michigan they clearcut 640 acre sections of National Forest all at once, but then go back, turn the soil and plant jackpine trees, so that no aspen or anything else for that matter grows ...

    Habitat in the Making 2009

  • He gave a voice to all us desert rats/jackpine savages/swamp things/general misanthropes that want to see things the way they were and the way they outa be.

    Brokeback Tree Stand Dave Hurteau 2008

  • With the tent unpacked and spread on the ground, the pack, leaning against a jackpine, looked much smaller.

    The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953

  • With the tent unpacked and spread on the ground, the pack, leaning against a jackpine, looked much smaller.

    The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953

  • And he wondered, after that, why Oosimisk and her husband and Father John piled evergreens all about, until the cabin looked like the little jackpine trysting-place down at Cragg's Ridge, even to the soft carpet of grass on the floor, and flowers scattered all about.

    The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • He unloaded his pack and drew from it a jackpine torch, dried in his cabin and heavy with pitch.

    The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • Most of that night he walked in the coolness of the moonlit plain, and for a long time he sat amid the flower - scented shadows of the trysting-place in the heart of the jackpine clump, where Nada had a hidden place all her own.

    The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • At Fort Smith, June 20, I cut down a jackpine that was 12 feet high, 1 inch in diameter, with 23 annual rings at the bottom; 6 feet up it had 12 rings and 20 whorls.

    The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • Black spruce, a smaller kind, and tamarack are found farther up and back in the bog country. jackpine of fair size abounds on the sandy and gravelly parts.

    The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

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