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A land grant is a gift of real estate—land or its use privileges—made by a government or other authority as an incentive, means of enabling works, or as a reward for services to an individual, especially in return for military service. Grants of land are also awarded to individuals and companies as incentives to develop unused land in ...
In terms of land cover, grasslands have the highest percentage of coverage with more than 535,000,000 acres (2,170,000 km 2) in the United States alone. [6] Grazing Land Conservation Initiative (GLCI) The Grazing Land Conservation Initiative (GLCI) is set up to help improve grazing land that is privately owned.
Land and Water Conservation Fund sign at the Old Erie Canal State Historic Park, DeWitt, New York. The United States' Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) is a federal program that was established by Act of Congress in 1965 to provide funds and matching grants to federal, state and local governments for the acquisition of land and water, and easements on land and water, for the benefit of ...
There were historical precedents on a small scale. However, the scale of land grants in the 19th century was much larger. [31] Lloyd J. Mercer attempts by the use of econometrics to determine the values of railroad land grants of the 19th century to the railroads and to society as a whole.
Slum clearance was ruled by the Supreme Court to be a public purpose sufficient to satisfy the requirement of the Fifth Amendment that government acquisition of property be for public use and be ...
Dec. 13—Twenty-five land conservation and historic preservation projects across the state have been approved to receive $3.7 million in matching grants from the New Hampshire Land and Community ...
In some states, the annual federal appropriations to the land-grant college under these laws exceed the current income from the investment of the sales proceeds of the original land grants. In the fiscal year 2006 USDA budget, $1.033 billion went to research and cooperative extension activities nationwide. [20]
From 1692 to 1846, the Spanish and Mexican governments awarded about 300 land grants to individuals, communities, and Pueblo villages in New Mexico and Colorado. After its conquest of New Mexico in the Mexican-American War, the U.S. and New Mexican governments adjudicated and "confirmed" (recognized the validity of) 154 of the grants in a long, slow, and corrupt legal process.