Tall evergreen of western North America; commercially important timber tree.
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The western hemlock and Sitka spruce are the best for paper making.
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It's a vigorous tree, your western hemlock.
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The forest was mostly western hemlock and bigleaf maple with alder saplings growing like weeds in nearly every former open area.
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She flew from the red alder to a Western hemlock.
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115, U.S. Forest Service: Mechanical properties of western hemlock, p.
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Western hemlock is of somewhat, but not much, slower growth when coming in on open land as an even-aged stand.
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: Black check in western hemlock.
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115-Mechanicalproperties of western hemlock.
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"They would have cut down the ancient woodland and planted western hemlock or Douglas fir, probably," said Beverley.
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"The western hemlock was doing really badly," Blackmoor said when I asked why they'd clear-felled Pokehouse Wood out of schedule.