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  2. Federal lands - Wikipedia

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    Federal lands are lands in the United States owned and managed by the federal government. [1] Pursuant to the Property Clause of the United States Constitution (Article 4, section 3, clause 2), Congress has the power to retain, buy, sell, and regulate federal lands, such as by limiting cattle grazing on them.

  3. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    Between 1862 and 1934, the federal government granted 1.6 million homesteads and distributed 270,000,000 acres (420,000 sq mi) of federal land for private ownership. This was a total of 10% of all land in the United States. [5]

  4. Southern Homestead Act of 1866 - Wikipedia

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    The Southern Homestead Act opened up 46,398,544.87 acres (about 46 million acres or 190,000 km 2) of public land for sale in the Southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

  5. Land Act of 1820 - Wikipedia

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    The Land Act of 1820 (ch. 51, 3 Stat. 566), enacted April 24, 1820, is the United States federal law that ended the ability to purchase the United States' public domain lands on a credit or installment system over four years, as previously established. The new law became effective July 1, 1820 and required full payment at the time of purchase ...

  6. Privatization of public land (United States) - Wikipedia

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    In much of the west, public land is leased to ranchers as rangeland. [3] Throughout the mid-1900s, federal land managers reduced the number of livestock allowed to graze these lands in order to prevent ecological degradation through overgrazing. These reductions led to building tension between federal land managers and ranchers, who were ...

  7. US proposes ending new federal leases in nation's biggest ...

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    The Bureau of Land Management proposal would affect millions of acres (millions of hectares) of federal lands and underground mineral reserves in the Powder River Basin area of Wyoming and Montana ...