Amr A. Ismail knows as much about self-promotion as he does about the succulent little blueberries that grow wild over thousands of pristine acres on the coast of Maine.

The chateau, which covers 1,200 square meters (12,917 square feet) of living space, sits on five pristine acres, bordered by farmland.

The vote was critical to the future of Ridge Hill Village, a $600 million mini-city of homes, offices and stores that Forest City Ratner wants to build on 81 pristine acres in northern Yonkers.

Nestled in the heart of 26,000 pristine acres in New Paltz, just a 90-minute drive from Manhattan, Mohonk may be the Northeast's finest counterpart to the great Western lodges built during the 19th century.

"Anything we build, they come," said Michelle Abate, marketing director of Crystal Springs Builders, which has created a resort community of 600 single-family homes, condominiums and town houses on 511 pristine acres.

In a new biography, Richard Rhodes describes how Audubon bought 14 pristine acres right on the Hudson River, down a hillside from what would someday be West 155th Street.

For about a month now, officials of Ridgefield Academy, a private school built on 42 pristine acres here, have been arguing with two sets of parents whose children were recently expelled as punishment for not only bad, but illegal behavior.

Only 450 of the resort's 6,000 pristine acres are developed for skiing, giving you your own private Utah.

One such suit asks the courts to block a Clinton administration regulation that would stop further road-building in 60 million pristine acres of the national forests.

It recently accepted a gift of 512 pristine acres on Martha's Vineyard form Bob N. Woods, a Califronia rancher andvintner.