In the nineteenth Century, settlers arrived at the prairie grasslands, once considered the Final Frontier of the Canadian West, and saw rich, vast ranchland for grazing cattle, and fertile soil for plowing and planting crops. |
It has bought ranchland in eastern Nevada and plans to build a pipeline to bring its water hundreds of miles south. |
Every year America loses 1.5m acres of wildlife habitat and 1m acres of farm and ranchland to development and sprawl. |
It includes part of the city of Regina, all of Moose Jaw, and surrounding ranchland and farm areas. |
Asian and South American rainforests were ripped up for poor ranchland while deserts, old and new, were irrigated for crops. |
Extensive flooding of farms and ranchland damaged roads and bridges along the Carrot and Red Deer rivers in eastern and central Saskatchewan. |