71.   Access to the crash site was hampered by the dense surrounding Atlantic forest.

72.   An Associated Press reporter and photographer reached San Jose on horseback, riding for five hours into a canyon of dense forest.

73.   Armed with machine guns, security forces created makeshift bunkers inside the dense forests, where gunbattles have been going on intermittently since the weekend.

74.   Before last year, archaeologists knew only that some kind of Taino site existed at La Aleta, in dense tropical forest.

75.   Bonobos, apes that closely resemble chimpanzees, live in very dense forest with only faint trails.

76.   But in Vietnam the government has built upon it to open up areas where American bombing turned dense virgin forest into grassy farmland.

77.   Congolese rebels have admitted they lost a northwestern town to forces loyal to President Laurent Kabila, blaming lack of men and dense forests for slowing their advance.

78.   Dropping water from helicopters, a common technique in the northern hemisphere, is practically useless here, where the dense forest canopy keeps water from reaching the ground.

79.   During a recent nine-hour walk through dense forest and thick underbrush, the only assailants were stinging ants.

80.   Escaping would mean traveling through a dense forest and over high mountain ridges, probably either on foot or on a horse or donkey.