Jackson Hole, Wyo., has opened 200 acres of bowls and tree skiing.

The bill would open 8.3 million acres of the gulf to new drilling.

Northstar-at-Tahoe has opened 220 acres of patroled but ungroomed terrain for advanced skiers.

The practical effect will be to open 300,000 acres of the Tongass to logging.

The bill is more ambitious than the administration's plan to open just two million acres for a five-year period, starting in 2007.

This dyking project, which was completed in 1924, opened 12,000 acres (49 km2) of land for agriculture to the west of Yarrow.

They could open as much as four million acres of national parks to coal mining.

The legislation was vetoed even though it would have also opened four million acres of protected Federal land to development.

Steamboat, in Colorado, opened 179 acres this season, kicking off a five-year, $21 million expansion project.

Mr. Smith then offered to open 77 acres to the hunt as a compromise; this was rejected.