In addition to Fossil Rim, there are a handful of other institutions that have opened large-acreage breeding sites, including the Smithsonian and, in Ohio, the Columbus Zoo.
In a swath of land along the Helmand River Valley, where there has been an enormous focus by NATO troops and international reconstruction workers, the acreage open for cultivation of vegetables and staple crops increased somewhat, according to a counternarcotics expert from the British Embassy, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the subject.
Barack Obama made a big fuss over his plan to open more U.S. acreage to exploratory oil and gas drilling.
Ms. Wasserman said: "People don't realize that they have all that state-owned acreage in open space.
We fear that, in coming weeks, Mr. Kempthorne will open up even more acreage to the commercial development of oil shale, a hugely expensive and environmentally risky process that even the oil companies seem in no hurry to begin.
Village officials and environmental advocates, like Scenic Hudson in Poughkeepsie, have lobbied vigorously to ensure that General Motors and Roseland design the new development with one-third of the acreage as open parkland.
IN the great Long Island land rush, developers mining the Island's acreage for open space to build homes selling for hundreds of thousands -- even millions -- of dollars, have uncovered a new lode: the golf course.
Harrall-Michalowski Associates Inc. of Hamden prepared the master plan for the committee, emphasizing a philosophy of flexibility, leaving 72percentt of the acreage as open space, recreation fields or land banked for future use, while preserving the architectural and design characteristics of the campus.
Quietly, you slide through the forest, breaking out now and again into acreages of open lake.
