The noble fir trees towered high above the forest floor.

Inside there would be a very tall, noble fir hung with colored lights and every kind of ornament.

Noble fir is a popular Christmas tree.

It received that name when early lumbermen sold the Noble Fir wood as larch.

Mountain hemlock, noble fir, silver fir, and western white pine are found in the higher elevations.

These areas are typically mixed conifer stands that include Douglas-fir, hemlock, western red cedar, and noble fir.

(The Noble fir and the Douglas are ubiquitous on the West Coast.)

Noble Fir trees (Abies procera) in Norway.

Yet the Government forest, a mix of noble fir, pine, cottonwoods, Douglas fir and hemlock, is now starting to come on, especially at the lower elevations.

A driver can choose a balsam wreath on an eight-inch ring or a noble fir wreath with cedar and juniper berries on a six-inch ring.

The glaciated region is roughly 89% forested with Noble fir, western hemlock, cedar species, pacific silver fir, mountain hemlock and several other tree species.

Red Fir is very closely related to Noble Fir (Abies procera), which replaces it further north in the Cascade Range.

Shasta Red Fir, White Fir, and the Noble Fir grow in the higher elevations of the watershed.

Good breeding: David Protell, president of Chelsea Garden Center, said the Pacific Northwest noble fir is the choice of tree connoisseurs.

Douglas-fir and Noble Fir are the dominant species at higher elevations, and Pacific Silver Fir is the climax species.

Red fir also tends to have the leaves less closely packed, with the shoot bark visible between the leaves, whereas the shoot is largely hidden in noble fir.

They are best distinguished by the leaves; Noble Fir leaves have a groove along the midrib on the upper side, while Red Fir does not show this.

However in the Pacific Northwest it is found in coniferous forests of Douglas fir, Noble fir, sugar pine, and Ponderosa pine.

Last week, George and Laura Bush were presented with an 18-foot noble fir that was grown by a family in Washington State and chosen with the help of the association.

The potential of Western Hemlock, Western Red Cedar, Grand Fir and Noble Fir in Britain.

Other species include Western Redcedar and Pacific Silver Fir, Grand Fir, and Noble Fir.

Typical montane forests in this ecoregion is dominated by Pacific Silver Fir and also contains Noble fir, Douglas-fir, and Alaska yellow-cedar.

BLUE NOBLE FIR (Abies procera Glauca Prostrata) - Gray-blue, needle evergreen; about three feet tall.

Kim Johnson, superviser of the walled garden, explained the scene as she dipped sprigs of gold-tipped incense cedar into glue before attaching them to a board covered in blue noble fir tips.

Also common in the region are Noble Fir, a tree which commands a higher price than Douglas-fir, and Grand Fir, which accounts for about 10 percent of the annual harvest in the Northwest.

This area is home to largest old growth red fir forest in the region.

The cabin is built of local red fir and ponderosa pine.

The name Red Fir derives from the bark color of old trees.

The pile of red fir bark near the hotel, left from previous summers, helped fuel the fire.

Also, white and red fir is present.

Mostly indigenous materials were used for construction, including volcanic rock and Shasta red fir.

Higher elevations have isolated stands of ponderosa pine and red fir.

Adult beetle feeds on mountain hemlock, and red fir.

Above the mixed-conifer forest is the major community of the Red Fir forest.

On the higher slopes are found white fir, Shasta red fir, and mountain hemlock.

Pausing under the shade of a red fir and its neighboring hemlock, Hopalong scanned the country.

Here and there was an immense sugar pine, giving way as he climbed higher to mountain hemlock and red fir.

Employees drove trucks farther to find the red fir bark, because they were allowed to collect it only from trees that were dead and down.

Red firs lined the road, and markers showed where houses and barns too hot to truck away or burn were buried.

A nearby stockpile of Red Fir left over from the firefall helped enlarge the flames.

"I made a sod-buster out of a red fir log, drove harrow spikes through it three inches apart.

Work involved a new maintenance facility at Red Fir and improvements to the existing Lodgepole campsite.

Red fir cones also mostly have shorter bracts, except in Abies magnifica var.

It is found in California, usually near Red Fir trees (Abies magnifica).

Bart fed in the kindling, lighted it, rocked back for a moment, then eased in two large quarters of a red fir round.

Logs of water birch along the low-lying creeks gradually give way to foxtail pines and later, red fir growing at the higher altitudes.

Vegetation includes conifers such as sugar, lodgepole and Jeffrey pine with almost pure stands of red fir on the highest elevations.

It is a white and yellow fungi on the bark of both white fir and red fir trees.

Below treeline, the wilderness is dominated by lodgepole pine, red fir, and Jeffrey pine, depending on elevation.

Found here are Ponderosa, Jeffrey, sugar, and lodgepole pine trees, as well as abundant white and red fir.

It was the tall Christmastree antenna and dish of a satellite communications centre.

Christmastree against the Swiss; nothing comes of it.

But theJunipero Serra lit herself up like a Christmastree.

Reflections of the overhead lights glimmered liquidly across the shiny metal caps of the spinning dispensers, flashed off the facets of the glass, traveled scintillatingly along the edges where one facet met another, so the shakers looked like glittery Christmastree ornaments.

The beautiful barbed and tanged "Christmastree" style point that had been popular since late Basketmaker III times was replaced first by a corner-notched style with flaring stem and rounded base, then by a triangular style with side notches.

The spot opens the night before Christmas, when three Christmastree ornaments - a Nutcracker, Elf and Snowboarder - come to life and conspire to get a taste of a Pepsi that along with some cookies has been left out for Santa Claus.

Abies procera, the Noble fir, also called red fir and Christmastree, is a western North American fir, native to the Cascade Range and Coast Range mountains of extreme northwest California and western Oregon and Washington in the United States.

Red Fir is very closely related to Noble Fir (Abies procera), which replaces it further north in the Cascade Range.

BLUE NOBLE FIR (Abies procera Glauca Prostrata) - Gray-blue, needle evergreen; about three feet tall.