In the case of these stunted trees a girth taken at 1 foot above the base might be more appropriate.
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Up there, where stunted trees may rise no higher than your shoulder, you are exposed like a human lightning rod.
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Northern Burkina Faso consists mainly of savanna, acacia woodland, and during the wet season, prickly shrubs and stunted trees flourish.
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Its 400 square kilometers of stony ground and stunted trees have lain forgotten since the miners moved on in the 1870s.
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If measuring a mountaintop forest of stunted trees only six feet tall, a girth measurement made at 4.5 feet would be meaningless.
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The Kirthar National Park in the Kirthar range spreads over more than 3000 km 2 of desert, stunted tree forests and a lake.
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Among the stunted trees and scrub of the scorching Zambezi River valley lie the graves of at least 100 victims of Zimbabwe's worst famine.
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Found at high elevation in Cloud / Montane Forests in the stunted tree growth associated with this habitat, in trees rich with epiphyte growth.
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After spotting the giraffes, Abdoulaye guided a driver through the bush, zigzagging around the stunted trees in the sandy soil, until he reached a clearing.
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And in another passage : " The wind had pressed the trees around them into a crooked wood of stunted trees, now a haunting, boreal chorus.
