1.   Its borders encompass vast forests, towering mountains, and many miles of wilderness as well as cities, farmlands, and bountiful rivers.

2.   This part is pristine, untouched with vast forests, mountains and interesting people including original gypsies.

3.   The vast forests of West Africa have shrunk.

4.   As a filthy haze from vast Indonesian forest fires continues to darken the sky across seven Southeast Asian nations, illness, ecological destruction and economic hardship are growing.

5.   Heavy showers have come to the northern islands of Borneo and Sumatra, dousing the vast forest fires that have blanketed parts of seven nations with a murky haze.

6.   If any places were ripe for fires of epic proportions this summer, they were the vast forests, brushlands and grasslands of the American West.

7.   Indeed, vast forest fires are burning out of control.

8.   Maine is so intent on protecting its vast commercial forest from the dreaded disease that state officials now have an all-points bulletin on the bug.

9.   Remaining issues included how much credit Russia should get toward its emissions goals for the role its vast forests play in absorbing carbon dioxide.

10.   Siberia also has enormous manganese and iron ore deposits and vast forests.