1.   Groups like the Nature Conservancy and dozens of smaller organizations are winning bids on public range land throughout the West.

2.   Halfway to our destination, the train pull into a depot built in remote range land, and the hundreds of passengers file off for lunch.

3.   Increasingly, youngsters are staying in school, dreaming of lives away from the range land.

4.   Parcels include range land, salt flats, meadows, desert and mountainous areas.

5.   The Masai have a reputation as warriors, which developed in the colonial days when they fought those who trod on their range land.

6.   The lodge also has a broad veranda that looks over a vast expanse of open range land.

7.   The situation is especially dire on the Navajo Reservation, where wells are drying up and range lands sit barren.

8.   This year, the Legislature again passed a measure barring non-ranchers from bidding on range land.

9.   Anchored in a sea of range land, the town seems removed from the world.

10.   Animal rights activists are objecting to a Bureau of Land Management plan to corral herds of wild horses from range land singed by summer wildfires.