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Aside from providing a flat, nearly treeless expense, the 40-kilometer-long atoll offered one other important advantage: It hosted only one airplane each week, on Wednesday.

From Timberline Lodge, the treeless flanks of the 11,235-foot volcano stretch up into darkness.

Aspen, ponderosa, and blue spruce bring top dollar as transplants in the naturally treeless, nearby Front Range cities like rapidly growing Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo.

Thus, Conroy suggests, the dry, treeless expanses now dominating the landscape in and around Namibia must have replaced a rainier, more heavily forested region.

Its treeless form sticks out like a beacon on the forested ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

"We rode out over the treeless plains until, from the crest of a ridge, about twenty miles from the main range of the Rockies, we looked down upon a scene which I will never forget because of its novel and exceeding beauty.

The Skiera coterie was an advance team from AMERICAN FORESTS preparing for a mass planting of 279 trees, each 10 feet tall, in a nearly treeless section of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson.

Many boreholes in the West pose a similar problem because they were drilled on the treeless, south side of hills, which receive more sunlight than nearby areas.

Built in the mid-1930s, Barksdale once stood on a treeless expanse of bottomland and sandy hills east of Shreveport, on the western bank of the Red River in northwestern Louisiana.

For centuries, that message resounded from Eastern Egg Rock, a treeless, granite island off the coast of Maine.

It stood visible to approaching wagon parties for miles--a beacon "respected by every traveler through this almost treeless country," as Medorem Crawford recorded in 1842 in her journal.

Since heat islands are caused by the many small, indirect contributions of treeless city streets, they can be cooled with many small communitywide actions.

Despite its treeless terrain, southern Texas may someday bethe site of paper-pulp mills.