As the Canadian climate has warmed, pine beetles have spread across vast acreages of Canadian forest land: estimated to presently constitute 7 percent of Earth's total forests. (treehugger.com)
In 1905, cattle baron Walter Vail began buying vast acreage surrounding the town of Temecula. (visittemeculavalley.com)
To be sure, there are vast acreages bordering the semiarid areas which never should have been applied to crop growing, at least until the uncultivated lands of the humid regions, already provided with natural and social facilities for a more comfortable existence, had been more fully utilized. (custom-essay-writing-service.org)