While avalanches are not uncommon in Alaska and the Alps, they are unusual in New York, and state officials and forest rangers said they could not recall a similar death in Adirondack Park, the vast preserve of mountains, lakes and forests stretching from the Mohawk River to the Canadian border.
In 1993, he led a campaign to persuade the Congolese government to set up a national park to protect 400,000 hectares of the Nouabale-Ndoki forest, a vast preserve teeming with forest elephants, an antelope called the bongo, and lowland gorillas.
And, in contrast to the vast preserves required by the world's most revered megafauna -- grizzlies and elephants, jaguars and condors -- maintaining biodiversity among the little creatures, shockingly rich in unexplored behavior and biochemistry, can be done on the cheap, in relatively tiny patches, as small as a few acres, around the world.
The hope of conservationists is that their discoveries can help persuade the Cambodian government to create a vast nature preserve.
THE inland heart of South Jersey is a vast national preserve, a million acres of former ocean bottom, now a primeval terrain of craggy pines and impenetrable forest scrub.
There was the added bonus of the vast nature preserve of the Sierra Crestellina, with its steep Jurassic limestone ridge, and home to wild boars, large horned muflons, and foxes.
The face-off at Changbai, a vast nature preserve that straddles the border between China and North Korea, began Sunday morning when park workers halted the trams that carry tourists up and down the winding mountain road to a hallowed volcanic lake.
The islands were all formed at the same time, they were all isolated by water and they were surrounded by a vast forest preserve that was still brimming with biological diversity.
ON the northern border of a vast desert preserve, halfway up a dusty hillside and overlooking a great forest of Joshua trees, David Nichols knelt to brush off a flat gray stone.
After lower courts told the federal government to stop displaying the cross, Congress ordered the land on which it sits to be transferred to a private group, resulting in what an appeals court called "a little donut hole of land with a cross in the midst of a vast federal preserve".
Kenya, country in East Africa famed for its scenic landscapes and vast wildlife preserves.
