The Santa Fe Trail began in the state of Missouri, the nineteenth century gateway to the wild and largely unexplored West.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Instead,visitors travel in small buses that take them to areas where they can walk on paths into the wild areas.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Being able to watch these animals playing, eating and communicating with each other in the wild is a special experience to treasure.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

He does not want to be buried out in these wild lands -- in the lone prairie -- as the song says.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

He learned how to hunt, set traps for wild animals and how to live in the forest.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

But preparing the captive bred condors to live in the wild again has not been easy.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Two of the plants growing in the wild showed resistance to both kinds of weed killers.

VOA: special.2010.09.14

But some experienced cavers are permitted to explore five "wild" caves in the park.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

"We need an army of people who are equipped to know how to work at all levels and all scales, from protecting animals in the wild to providing shelter to them in zoological parks if necessary."

VOA: special.2010.06.22

"Just like law and order in general. What would have been comparable to the Wild West, being in the Wild West, where there literally was just chaos, no law and order, as to now where there actually was law and order.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

The act said the purpose was to "conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Fishermen may have to turn to aquaculture like this tilapia farm in Vientiane to make up for the lost wild catch.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

She spent decades studying and living among Central African chimpanzees in the wild and now campaigns to protect the endangered species.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

The best way to deal with bluefin tuna fisheries really is to manage it well in the wild."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

"What makes it so rare is that it is highly endangered in the wild, in Sumatra, and it is so hard to get to bloom in cultivation."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30