Above the timberline was a collar of summer-green alpine pasture that turned white with snow early in the season.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

He was in the mountains, and he was below timberline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Revenge]

How I love to watch the wintergreen along the timberline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Trail] Reference

The alpine zone covers the treeless areas above timberline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sierran Steppe - Mixed Forest - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)] Reference

Krummholz vegetation occupies windswept areas near timberline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)] Reference

They ran through the timberline and on towards the rocky hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

The pass across it rose above timberline, and travel was rugged.    From Wordnik.com.  [do you ever read writing?] Reference

Elevations range from 10,000 feet to timberline, about 11,000 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Utah (EPA)] Reference

As the timberline neared Gwalchmai sped past his astonished opponent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

Flenser pointed up the hill; the timberline was only a few yards away.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

Also you made it to the timberline, and became a child of the mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

The timberline descends from north to south from approx. 1000 m to 500 m.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magellanic subpolar forests] Reference

It was approaching evening of the second day before they reached the timberline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

Above timberline, alpine meadows, talus slopes, and rocky outcrops cover the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sierra Nevada forests] Reference

They spread out along the timberline, screened by bushes, thick gorse and heather.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

Above the timberline many hardy plants adapted to the harshness of the environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

Above timberline, there is an alpine zone with rich communities of shrubs and herbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cascade Mixed Forest - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)] Reference

Together they eased their way through to the women archers hidden by the timberline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

The upper timberline dynamics during the last 1100 years in the Polar Ural Mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate change and forest distribution in the Arctic] Reference

Mosses and lichens grow above timberline, where rainfall is low and frost is frequent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaiian Islands Province (Bailey)] Reference

Above timberline on Mount Washington, there is tundralike growth called alpine meadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adirondack-New England Mixed Forest - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)] Reference

Alpine tundra, alpine grassland, subirrigated meadows, and wetlands occur above timberline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)] Reference

Strictly alpine meadows occur above the timberline and host many endemic and relict species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests] Reference

Because only a few isolated mountains rise above timberline, the alpine zone is not extensive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Plateau Semidesert Province (Bailey)] Reference

Because yaks are often found above the timberline their dung is an important fuel in many areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

In the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, timberline varies from 7,700 to 10,000 ft (2,350 to 3,050 m).    From Wordnik.com.  [Cascade Mixed Forest - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)] Reference

The glaciated Alpine Zone is composed of mountains above timberline, about 11,500 feet elevation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Utah (EPA)] Reference

And they are debriefing, right now, here on the timberline side, on the south side of the mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2006] Reference

Northward the mountainside rose steeply until, above timberline, its crags were crowned by a glacier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Book of Stormgate]

Peregrine stumbled past the timberline, and continued till he was sheltered by a hundred yards of forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

Here, the timberline of dwarfed beeches (at approximately 1200 meters) directly border the alpine meadows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carpathian montane conifer forests] Reference

The sheep and goats are pastured on the high mountain sides and in the grassy meadows at or above timberline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The School Book of Forestry] Reference

They occur in scattered groves near timberline, where individuals have been found to exceed 4,000 years of age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA)] Reference

Juniper woodlands (Juniperus foetidissima) usually define a timberline in high mountain areas of certain massifs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pindus Mountains mixed forests] Reference

Tundra systems of low shrubs and herbaceous plants form discontinuous mats among the rocks and rubble above timberline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alaska Range Humid Tayga - Tundra - Meadow (Bailey)] Reference

The Alpine Zone includes disjunct high elevation, glaciated mountainous areas above timberline across all of Ecoregion 17.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)] Reference

Now half way through this wilderness of ice, snow, and bursting glasciers is a cave not in a valley but on a mountain above timberline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Beaver The Trapper] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The note says they planned to go up Mt. Hood on the north base and come down the south side to timberline by Saturday.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2006] Reference