ringbarked

Tellingly, savvy online people refer to newspapers as the dead tree media; has the new online world ringbarked The Age into a slow death, dying from its branches and reaching into the trunk?

At My Table 2008

Tellingly, savvy online people refer to newspapers as the dead tree media; has the new online world ringbarked The Age into a slow death, dying from its branches and reaching into the trunk?

Archive 2008-10-01 2008

When the country is ringbarked the ground sweetens, and by the time the tree is dead is ready for cropping.

Wheat Growing in Australia Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

The deeper the trees are ringbarked, the bigger the piece of bark removed, the sooner it will die, but there is then a greater tendency to throw out suckers.

Wheat Growing in Australia Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

Where green timber has to be cleared off the land it is ringbarked first, and the trees allowed to die before they are grubbed out.

Wheat Growing in Australia Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

There was a tree falling, one of the great, gaunt, naked things that had been ringbarked long ago.

Seven Little Australians Ethel Sybil Turner 1915

And where there's a piece of recently ringbarked country, with the dead leaves still on the trees, the fire will roar from bough to bough -- a fair imitation of a softwood forest fire.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

Ben rode back, through the moonlight and the moon-shadow haunted paddocks, and the naked, white, ringbarked trees, along Snakes Creek, parallel with the main road he had recently travelled till he struck

The Rising of the Court Henry Lawson 1894

Then I read that they probably ringbarked the trees and left them as skeletons for a decade or two; leafless, they would not have shaded out growing crops.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Then I read that they probably ringbarked the trees and left them as skeletons for a decade or two; leafless, they would not have shaded out growing crops.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011