In the crowded north, towns have merged together, and the remaining unprotected open land is rapidly disappearing.

One way of halting this tyranny would be a tax on unused, unprotected land.

Together with adjoining unprotected public land, the two wilderness areas form a five million acre (20,000 km2) wild region.

The other 11 are on private, unprotected land.

This meant flooding in any unprotected low lands.

Tomorrow they would head through the pass and into the unprotected lands.

However, a large proportion of the population is found on unprotected land.

The Bush administration today proposed opening up part of the nation's largest remaining block of unprotected public land to oil and gas development.

The latter subspecies may only be composed of five individual plants today, and all are located on private, unprotected land.

"We need to acquire unprotected land," he said, "and towns might be willing to accept less money than the land is worth."