It would take a week to walk the 16, 000 wild acres of arroyos, plains and cottonwoods.

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Second, the unintentional destruction of their habitat as farms and villages encroach deeper and deeper into the last remaining wild acres.

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Dunvegan, Portree and Uig crews extinguished a wild fire that burnt 40 acres on Skye.

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Thinking about the recent wildfires in Texas, with our new capability, I can now answer the question: How many insured customers do we have in a 50 mile radius of all wild fires bigger than 1500 acres, in Texas?

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Ten Hampden Park-sized football grounds could be fitted into the 332 acres of land calculated to have been burnt in wild fires in the north since 1 May.

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To the west he looks out on mesas for 40 miles, and from his north-facing windows he occasionally catches glimpses of wild mustangs roaming the hills of thousands of acres owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

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So, in my first months of office I signed a public lands bill -- that many of you worked on -- that designated two million acres of wilderness, over 1, 000 miles of wild and scenic rivers and three national parks. (Applause.) I'm very proud of that.

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