moose pasture

noun

1. informal.
   land considered to be worthless, esp when lacking in extractable mineral deposits

Example Sentences

“His story was rather than just cutting virgin forest and leaving it for moose pasture, he would replant with fast-growing tree species” such as eucalyptus, using the latest advances in tree genetics and cultivation techniques, said Huang.

From BusinessWeek

Example: promoters got thousands of copies of a Toronto Financial Post oil supplement, substituted a phony page to plug the "Moose Pasture Oil Company," and mailed the copies to a list of potential U.S. suckers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unscrupulous Canadian promoters had bilked thousands of Americans in recent years selling shares in such phony enterprises as "Moose Pasture Oil" and "Uranium Explorations, Ltd."

From Time Magazine Archive

Merely a moose pasture, entering the Klondike just above its mouth, and known to old-timers as Rabbit Creek.

From Project Gutenberg

The Colonel was buried in the old moose pasture, with people standing by who knew that the world had worn a friendlier face because he had been in it.

From Project Gutenberg