1. Hanley also had access to thousands of acres of public range land . 2. As a House member, Blair supported farmers who needed open range lands . 3. Parcels include range land , salt flats, meadows, desert and mountainous areas. 4. There are also rain-fed fields and open range land that span several miles. 5. Range land , once free, now had to be leased or bought from the homesteaders.6. Increasingly, youngsters are staying in school, dreaming of lives away from the range land . 7. Without access to water, the nearby open range land was useless to other ranchers. 8. Many smaller towns along the way supported open range lands . 9. Hunters were worried that as horses degraded range land , hunting species would also suffer. 10. Anchored in a sea of range land , the town seems removed from the world.