wildlands

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But flying over the Pashtun wildlands is the blunt-edged face of predation and death, ready at a moment's notice to deliver hellfire to those below.

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  • More precisely, this is 1805, halfway through Lewis and Clark's two-year excursion into the wildlands, the point at which the two men (and all their followers, though right now they're gloriously irrelevant) finally stumble across a certain indentation in a certain grassland. —  F ;SF - vol 101 issue 03 - September 2001
  • "By voting to protect mountains and pristine wildlands, Congress is starting out on the right foot," said Christy Goldfuss of Environment America, an advocacy group. —  Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
  • But flying over the Pashtun wildlands is the blunt-edged face of predation and death, ready at a moment's notice to deliver hellfire to those below. —  Foreign Policy In Focus
  • January of 2007 is the month that thousands of Oregonians who value wildlands, wildlife, and clean water want to see Congress act to pass legislation to protect more of Mount Hood and the Columbia Gorge as Wilderness. —  BlueOregon
  • Both gardens planted three years ago by the university and Greater Newark Conservancy have become examples of urban wildlands, or nature areas in cities, where native species of plants and animals have returned and prospered, said ecologist Claus Holzapfel, who has served as an advisor on the gardens.
 

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