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The area of the United States he placed under public protection totals approximately 230 million acres (930,000 square kilometers). [137] Roosevelt was the first honorary member of the Camp-Fire Club of America. [138] Roosevelt extensively used executive orders to protect forest and wildlife lands during his presidency. [139]
Logstown and other Native American villages, most circa 1750s. The riverside village of Logstown (1726?, 1727–1758) also known as Logg's Town, French: Chiningue [1]: 356 (transliterated to Shenango) near modern-day Baden, Pennsylvania, was a significant Native American settlement in Western Pennsylvania and the site of the 1752 signing of the Treaty of Logstown between the Ohio Company, the ...
Some adjacent land to the southeast, in Virginia and North Carolina, was also purchased. [2] The land thus delineated, 20 million acres (81,000 km 2), encompassed an area half the size of present-day Kentucky. Henderson and his partners probably believed that a recent British legal opinion, the Pratt–Yorke opinion, had made such purchases legal.
[50] [20] The claim was an extension of Connecticut's northernmost and southernmost borders westward, skipping New Jersey and New York, though as Connecticut's northern border was a few miles north of Pennsylvania's northern border, a small sliver of New York was also claimed. While conflict would continue for some time, this was the end of the ...
By signing the Treaty with the Klamath of 1864, 16 Stat. 707, [30] the Klamath tribe ceded 20 million acres (81,000 km 2) of land but retained 2 million acres (8,100 km 2) and the rights to fish, hunt, trap, and gather from the lands and waters as they have traditionally done for centuries.
In 1992, Denevan suggested that the total population was approximately 53.9 million and the populations by region were, approximately, 3.8 million for the United States and Canada, 17.2 million for Mexico, 5.6 million for Central America, 3 million for the Caribbean, 15.7 million for the Andes and 8.6 million for lowland South America. [13]
A quarter-century earlier, the 16th President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, served 1861-1865), had earlier signed the famous Homestead Act of 1862 during the American Civil War which allowed settlers to claim lots of up to 160 acres (0.65 km 2), provided that they lived on the land and improved it for several years. [2]
This involves revegetating 2,200 acres (890 ha) of newly exposed land in drained reservoirs, stabilizing sediment to prevent erosion, restoring the river's main channel as well as 3.4 miles (5.5 km) of tributaries [142] within the reservoir zones to improve fish passage, and monitoring water quality all the way to the river's mouth. [168]