Shea keeps the rest of the acreage, dividing it among home lots, its commercial real estate arm and its Trilogy division, which develops ritzy retirement communities complete with championship golf courses.
Among the acreage burned, 45,000 acres were part of the Plumas and Lassen national forests.
"Boardwalk Empire," HBO's painterly take on Prohibition-era Atlantic City, is so exceptionally cast and deftly acted that it is nearly impossible to choose from among the acreage of talent.
Yet the competition among crops for acreage has become so intense that some farmers think the government and analysts like Mr. Babcock are being overly optimistic.
So what Mr. Evans refers to as "superhomes" in the enviable Bournemouth districts of Branksome Park, Canford Cliffs and Sandbanks (a spit of sand sticking into the sea that is among the most expensive acreage in the country) could be coveted by the same kind of overseas buyers who keep the central London market so buoyant.
Some are situated on acreage and some are sited in communities among other single-story homes.
He then passed his bill in a less conciliatory form and had himself, his father-in-law, and his brother appointed commissioners with powers to determine boundaries of public land, confiscate excess acreage, and divide it in inalienable allotments among landless citizens.
Chief among them is west side acreage covered by the giant 600,000-acre Westlands Water District, whugs hugs the eastern flank of Interstate 5 for about 80 miles just west of Fresno.
The National Congress passed a measure providing for the expropriation of unused portions of landholdings in excess of a specified acreage and for the distribution of the land among landless peasants.
But some goals specific to the industry have been thwarted, among them efforts to widen the acreage for natural gas drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Florida, and to have unilateral sanctions against Iran and Libya lifted.
