The Governor's bill would tighten zoning restrictions in some lake-front and back-country areas while also expanding tax incentives for land preservation.

Massachusetts has many back-country areas to ski, including a few near Boston.

Gas stations are easy to find on main roads, but hard to find in back-country areas and isolated beaches.

In this vast terrain is space for all types of winter sports, in alpine resorts, nordic centers and back-country areas.

There is also a back-country area with an off-camber track for higher-speed evaluation of suspensions and handling.

Their intention was to be able to handle logistics needs without being dependent on local road or rail systems, allowing them to operate in back-country areas.

As Mr. Rice traveled through the same back-country areas, where life has hardly changed for millennia, he realized that earlier biographies missed a lot.

For example, Great Basin National Park does not allow pets at all in back-country areas.

Money sent by the prisoner's families in Britain and Germany provided a lot of hard currency and coin for the back-country area.

Today, in many back-country areas paved roads remain relatively scarce.