There are millions of untouched desert acres around Phoenix where new suburbs could easily spring up.
The goal, says Philip Pannett, the council's planning manager, is to protect 125,000 hectares (310,000 acres) around Auckland from development.
Almost 80,000 acres, around 40percentnt of the park, is designated wilderness, so there's plenty of space for soaking up the natural beauty.
Keukenhof is the world's largest flower garden, over 70 acres (around 32 hectares) of parkland filled with more than 7 million bulbs - tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, narcissi, gladioli.
He also farmed the acres around their house.
Cindy and I sold our house in Alaska and the ten acres around it.
The company owns about 2,300 acres around the 1,200-acre 1,200-acreate.
The deal included the right to develop 217 acres around the ballpark.
Since then, the city has bought an additional 10,000 acres around the Ashokan Reservoir alone.
He remains a player through a joint venture with the buyers to own the 300 acres around Dodger Stadium.
The Department of the Interior oversees more than 500m acres, around a fifth of the land area of the country.
