Hazel, holly and yew are the understorey trees beneath soaring beeches and magnificent Douglas firs.
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The trampling of human feet made most suburban woodlands I knew barren, but here the understorey was thick with life.
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Unlike a possum, they can't climb up the tree so they're eating the seedlings and smaller saplings in the understorey, he said.
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Around us a soft breeze, its understorey laced with a tang of salt and seaweed, beneath a sweeter overtone of thrift, or sea pinks.
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These pests and predators have destroyed the canopy and understorey of the ngahere, and attacked threatened species to the point of local extinction, she said.