101.   A half-dozen private environmental groups weighed in at the hearings, insisting that the Whitney land be wilderness and nothing less.

102.   Abandoned, that is, until the government decided that the land was ripe for the picking.

103.   Above the lake, rat experts reckon, the land is too barren and thinly inhabited to provide sustenance even for a rat.

104.   Across that border is a land without electricity or running water, where utility poles stand as impotent reminders that no power courses through their lines.

105.   Adjacent land is available for plant expansion.

106.   After the war, their land was down to several hundred acres in Polk County.

107.   After that, the land would be officially part of the proposed park.

108.   Agricultural land is exempt from permit rules.

109.   All around the house, within yards of it in some places, the land was black and still smoking.