1.   This is an environmentally fragile area.

2.   And federal land managers are considering doing what the National Park Service now does, which is to limit entry into certain fragile areas.

3.   Besides working to clear the beaches, officials also prepared to use floating booms to protect environmentally fragile areas.

4.   Environmental militants in the West have destroyed fences, set fires to livestock buildings and driven spikes into trees to prevent logging in fragile areas.

5.   It keeps them happy and also keeps them from using more environmentally fragile areas.

6.   John Sheehan, spokesman for the Adirondack Council, said the agreement was particularly important because it could help reduce acid rain in environmentally fragile areas like the Adirondacks.

7.   Pollution from companies in these states has been blamed for acid rain in environmentally fragile areas of New York, like the Adirondacks.

8.   Rather, they are ringed, or soon will be, by buildings, rushing traffic and neighbors who may consider fragile areas extensions of their backyards.

9.   The president proposed a series of sweeping environmental initiatives concerning toxic waste dumps, water pollution, public lands policies and protection for fragile areas.

10.   Particularly fragile areas are to be covered with a stronger gypsum gauze.