21.   In the coastal plains here, where tobacco once ruled, sit hundreds of corporate hog farms, punctuated by giant lagoons filled with manure.

22.   It would open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, calving ground of the famed Porcupine caribou herd, to oil and gas drilling.

23.   Late winter snows in Canada forced thousands of caribou to calve along their hazardous migration route, many miles from the security of the coastal plain.

24.   Meanwhile, moisture will continue to gather western Gulf States on Friday, paving the way for areas of moderate to heavy rain near the Texas coastal plain.

25.   Much of the northeast coastal plains area was flooded by the Rio Grande de Loiza.

26.   Murkowski wants to open the coastal plain of the wildlife refuge to drilling and oil production.

27.   Much of the land that it put off limits is around Teshekpuk Lake and the coastal plain where the oil industry believes the richest deposits lie.

28.   Oil exploration would essentially mean the creation of a complex of small worker communities across thousands of acres of coastal plain.

29.   Once the plodding herd reaches the coastal plain, most of the calves are born within four or five days of one another.

30.   Others, including the English and Scots, battled over the coastal plain while Yemassee and Tuscarora Indians fought to protect their claims.