1.   Because there are few roads and management is intense, this is a pristine area -- wild, rugged and beautiful.

2.   He also called for passage of an energy plan that includes a controversial provision to allow drilling in a pristine area of Alaska.

3.   It also allows for the introduction of disease and pests into pristine areas.

4.   It could lead to new restrictions on logging, livestock grazing and mining in pristine areas.

5.   Local officials also dream of promoting eco-tourism in the remaining pristine areas.

6.   Protection need not be restricted to pristine areas, the authors say.

7.   State infrastructure money is then directed to those places, rather than to pristine areas at the fringes.

8.   The Canadian government is holding hearings across the Northwest Territories this month to determine whether the mine will cause unacceptable amounts of environmental damage to the pristine area.

9.   The settlers have long since abandoned the rocky terrain for the valley or the West, leaving it a pristine area for skiers.

10.   This is a pristine area of overgrown marsh and hidden, nameless streams feeding into the pond.