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The potential to lose half in 2007 and another 800,000 acres the following year is a tremendous impact to natural resource opportunities in the state.

We are pleased that we obtained a rig and drilled this initial well with no problems. Should this well be productive in commercial quantities, we will exercise our option to obtain a 100% working interest in approximately 7,600 acres in this prospect.

With those temperatures, there's no wide-spread damage across large acres of groves, but there's potentially spotty damage in the hours that temperatures are in the mid-20s. There certainly is a risk of damage later this week.

Jim Wright

We bought 1.64 acres of some stuff that was dear to us, ... We just thought it was in the best interest to preserve it, and the price seemed good.

Years ago a town would have, on average, 20 acres annexed in a given year. Last year alone 120 acres were annexed. The rate is happening faster and the parcels that are going are bigger. Which I don't think bodes well for the town.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

With the number of labor-intensive acres going up in California, their behavior does not seem to suggest that they see a labor shortage, even if that's what they tell reporters. Farmers always think there's not enough labor. It's a very unpredictable business. You can't control the weather. The one thing you can push for is a lax immigration program, or a guest-worker program.

Charles Lee

It seems nutty to sell or exchange waterfront property, because the land would become a magnet for development. If you turn 1,000 acres into subdivisions, the generation of a need for more roads and schools would outstrip any benefit of raising this revenue.

John Jones

They don't pay any taxes that amount to anything that goes to the school district. They have thousands of acres of property in Harrison County. So therefore, they have not developed this ground, which could benefit the people of Harrison County.

This agreement protects acres of old forests that are good for the owl and other animals that would not have had protection otherwise.

They told us they had parking issues and we said we had 5.5 acres they were welcome to use to solve their problem. We were more than happy to help out the fair.

Jon Kyl

Forest Service resources need to be concentrated on the most critical acres and communities at risk across the regions.

It's the last outstanding parcel at the gateway. It's about 150 acres of fine agricultural land just minutes off the Interstate.

There weren't a whole lot of folks who wanted it. Now it's our opportunity to add 3 acres to the park.

They're losing 6,000 acres of poor hunting land, and in exchange they're getting $5.5 million worth of solid hunting opportunity in other parts of the state.

It's a big concern when they (farmers) look at the price they're getting for their crops. They don't see big increases unless it's a year when the yields are low. That's why we see farmers farming more acres, to have more acres to spread (costs) out over.

It's 5 acres of the most wonderful view property in Seattle.

As governor, Kempthorne led the charge to strip protection from 60 million acres of America's last wild forests and he's consistently fought against protection for wildlife like grizzly bears and salmon in his home state of Idaho.

Back in the 1960s, one of the members bought some land there and wanted to sell 10 acres to the club for a clubhouse and shelter, and so it came about.

Our agency is the largest agriculture water retailer in San Diego County. We have about 23,000 or 24,000 acres of agricultural land, so while we have enough storage to serve our domestic customers for 10 days, we don't have enough storage to accommodate our agricultural customers during the shutdown.

Originally, we had about 275 acres in this farm. The state took 13 acres of the land to build the highway. We didn't like it to begin with.

Mike Johanns

Approximately 16 million acres subject to CRP contracts expire in 2007. Fulfilling President Bush's directive to allow eligible farmers and ranchers to re-enroll or extend their CRP contracts helps ensure that the quality of soil, water, air and wildlife benefits of CRP continue across the nation for years to come.

The significance of this 5.8 acres that we own, among the 640 acres that we also own, is it does not have to be held open for public use. It can be privately held, privately occupied.

The thing that originally attracted us to this development was the park on the Guadalupe River. It's 60 acres left in its natural state.

The ones who are in favor of the nomination live near the 50 acres of forest we want to preserve. The majority of people who are opposed to it say they think this type of mid-rise condos is out of keeping with the rest of the development in the area.

The most significant one included the one in Kershaw County. A large fire also burned in Hampton County, estimated to be over 450 acres. Eighty acres also burned in McCormick County, where some structures were threatened.

Some people have charged that we put a bull's-eye on the location of the plane but that's not true. It is an area of at least four square acres so it's not an 'X' marks the spot.

Thanks to the cooperation of Mr. Moore and Vital Ground, Montana will leverage the value of their easement to provide about $600,000 in federal funds that we will use to conserve other important forestlands in the Swan Valley. This project will add another 180 acres to a program that has helped conserve wildlife habitat and working forests on nearly 155,000 acres in Montana in the last five years.

These 80 acres were planted in winter rye. The seed germinated and the plants grew three or four inches then died.

These 60 acres will be regenerated with houses, sports facilities and leisure facilities as well as a world-class stadium.

Larry Klayman

The state overreached. They wanted the other 5.7 acres and they coerced my client, Mr. Hering, into selling it to them by saying that he wasn't going to get a right-of-way to get to those acres.

The women had an outstanding day in placing second at the McPherson Invitational on a windy day. Six out of seven runners improved their times from last week's meet. Overall, the women ran about a minute faster on the Rolling Acres course compared to a year ago.

John Grant

The University is very concerned about the possibility of fire on our campus. We have hundreds of acres of land that are extremely dry due to the recent drought. Even areas that are usually somewhat wet (like Groundhog Park) are in a very dry and fire prone condition right now.