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Borg Svemann, Woodworker
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Tuckamore is a Newfoundland term for the stunted balsam fir and spruce trees that grow in alpine areas and along the coast.
Fir trees belong to Scandinavian countries, not at all to desert lands.
Firs are the more prevalent trees in Idaho's forests, which were predominantly pines before European settlers arrived in Idaho.
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Athena Mondale, Spiritual Consultant
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Fir trees were always green, symbolic of life, and to the ancients represented immortality in a dead world.
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Miles Rhodes, Wine Taster
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The trees are of medium height and vary from pine, oak, fir, olive and mulberry trees to citrus fruit and palm trees.
Fir trees stood in the corners of the room and on the table were a single platter and bowl plus spoons, knives, forks and glassware.
Replace fir trees with towering saguaros, soaring mountains with plunging canyons, and snow-filled winters with ceaseless sunny days.
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Sarah Kennedy, Fashion Model
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Fir trees had been planted in rows 8 to 10 feet apart and were now 75 to 100 feet tall.
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Bori Gonbutoren, Reindeer Herder
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Canaan fir is so-named because several of the original trees with the intermediate morphology were identified from a limited area in West Virginia, generally referred to as the Canaan Valley.
Nests are placed in large cottonwood or douglas fir trees within 400 meters of water and are used over and over again.
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Paddy McGuinness, Newsagent
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Our Fraser fir trees are grown in scenic Ashe County, located in northwestern North Carolina.
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Billie Kirgan, Machinist
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The undergrowth was thick with fern and smaller trees that seemed to starve beneath the greedy canopy of fir that blocked the sky.
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