A man lay sprawled against a dwarf oak, eyes bulging sightlessly and neck aivi37.

For the trees, he selected a species of dwarf oak that can live several hundred years but that may take a century to reach a mere 12 feet.

It was a short climb among over-beetling boulders, sturdy tamaracks, and dwarf oaks that took the form of low-growing bushes.

An occasional dwarf oak loomed out of the fog and forced Allison and then Mike to detour.

Scrub trees replaced the tall grass, dwarf oaks and oddly twisted pines.

The dwarf oaks recover from a burn as well as the pines.

Four miles north and a little west, and you can see the trees from the ridge with the two dwarf oaks.

THE cleared land on the 7,100-acre site meanders flat as a prairie toward the wall of scrub pines and dwarf oaks half a mile away.

Second-growth forests covered millions of hectares, but they were stunted box trees and dwarf oaks.

Due to its short stature (with relation to other oaks) it is sometimes referred to as the dwarf oak.