People settled in the great open areas of the Dakotas,Utah, Wyoming,and California.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Today environmental groups are fighting proposals to open protected areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

In Eighteen-Fifty, estimates say twenty-million buffalo lived on the open plains areas of the west.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

But visitors are welcome in small stores that are around the large open plaza areas.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

These are usually in areas with little traffic but lots of open country.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

In most museums, storage areas are not open to the public.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

But they say much of the Gulf of Mexico remains open, and seafood from unaffected areas is safe.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

"I think there are going to be hard choices governments are going to have to face, either to open up in areas where they actually need workers, and some do involve some lesser-skilled occupations, or probably have to face some strong pressures with respect to irregular migrations,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.20