But for some of the farmers (and all of their supporters) the fight is not just about any land, it is about the promised land.
He speaks with great passion about the land, and about his Huron-Wendat heritage.
Like many of the Soviet Jewish dissidents she befriended, Ms Laber feels ambivalent about the land where her ancestors suffered pogroms: passionate about its literature, horrified by its cruelty.
New York will retain the original land, about five acres, which includes the main hall through which millions of immigrants to the United States passed on arrival.
"If you want to learn about the history of this land, it's about the different layers, the different civilisations that have been here - it's not just about one, " says Yoni Mizrachi, a former Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist.
Gene Pfeifer, a businessman who owns part of the planned site, has protested both about the size of the scheme and the way in which Little Rock has set about obtaining the land.
Lawyers for the government and a private company owning the land said they were concerned about the health of the squatters if they are allowed to stay.
It means the 1939 kick seen in the nitrate "curve" above also incorporates some the delayed response from the land-use change brought about by the introduction of arable subsidies in 1917.
We saw and heard about the impacts, from slumping land due to the melting of permafrost to hunter stories about the northward migration of species and the challenge that early ice break up poses for transportation.
The average settling, or subsidence, was about the same as it was measured on land - about six millimeters a year.
He said the first task was to prove whether the story about Robert Edwards owning the land was actually true.
India's Attorney General GE Vahanvati told the judges that Rome's failure to return the two marines "is a breach of undertaking given to the highest court of the land and the government is extremely concerned about it".
Hong Kong recently tightened its mortgage lending rules and promised to increase the supply of land after prices soared about 45% since the beginning of 2009.
The company owns about 654, 000 acres of forest land in the Southeastern region of the U.S., and about 135, 000 acres in Brazil.
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Mr Davies said at the time with reference to the timing of the sale of the Lisvane land that talks had begun about a year before the sale was completed.
The only dry land on the farm was an area about eight feet wide around the house.
Of course, the locals have known about the beauty of the land for far longer, and they want to keep it that way.
She says it's about the land, which she and her husband Keith want to pass onto the next generation.
To learn about the land and its people, walkers can embark on a journey guided by its indigenous inhabitants.
The city approached the company about buying the center and its land.
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Once we had assembled the land, we set about building a house.
For many of the students, enthusiasm for studying in the land of the free is tempered by fears about the difficulty of getting a visa.
I'm surprised that we haven't discussed beer before, because it also doubles as a wrecking ball when it comes to demolishing a few stereotypes and misconceptions about the land down under.
"It's important to learn about the land, to appreciate it, and to understand the threats to it and the opportunities to better protect it, " he said recently during a rest day from his journey, officially called TrekEast.
The new state land lies in Newcomb about a dozen miles below where the Hudson first spills out of Lake Henderson into a rocky streambed, about 300 miles before it flows into New York Harbor as a wide, flat waterway carrying barges.
Egypt's Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, Maged George, predicts that by the year 2020, the effects of global warming will threaten about 15 percent of the land in the Nile Delta.
The previously unnamed territory is nearly twice the size of the United Kingdom and about a third of the whole land mass of the British Antarctic Territory, Hague said.
He says the ideal facility would have about one-fourth of the land area and perhaps one-third the workers.
The community dates back about a century, a response to land shortages in El Salvador - a country about a fifth the size of Honduras, but with a much larger population at that time.
The attraction will sprawl across about 170 hectares of land reclaimed from the sea at Penny's Bay.
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