1.   The Ringstrasse was built on a huge tract of open land surrounding the city which had previously served as a military fortification.

2.   Wind farms also take up huge tracts of land and can kill birds caught in turbine blades.

3.   According to Friends of the Earth, Gabon contains huge tracts of virgin rainforest and has one of the slowest deforestation rates in Africa.

4.   Among the potential new sellers of water are the Bass brothers, who have bought huge tracts of land in the Imperial Valley in anticipation of a rising market.

5.   And Phoenix, with huge tracts of thick Sonoran desert in the north, depends more on leverage than on law.

6.   After the massacre, huge tracts of a town were bulldozed and left in ruins.

7.   Huge tracts of government-owned land currently are being environmentally degraded, by everything from federally supported logging to invasive, noxious weeds.

8.   In a huge tract of forest whose owner had given Benefield permission to hunt, Benefield drove slowly down dirt paths, stopping on the hilltops to call.

9.   In the East Bay, huge tracts of wildlands appear to be on the verge of awesome wildflower blooms.

10.   Officials who have followed the problem say huge tracts of forest could be ruined, changing landscapes for generations.