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  2. Desert Land Act - Wikipedia

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    The Desert Land Act is a United States federal law which was passed by the United States Congress on March 3, 1877, to encourage and promote the economic development of the arid and semiarid public lands within certain states of the Western states.

  3. Federal lands - Wikipedia

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    The laws that spurred mass federal land transfers, with the exception of the General Mining Law of 1872 and the Desert Land Act of 1877, have since been repealed or superseded. [19] Between 1781 and 2018, the federal government divested itself of estimated 1.29 billion acres (5.2 million km 2) of public domain land. [6]

  4. Deseret Ranches - Wikipedia

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    The church bought the original 54,000-acre (220 km 2) tract in 1950 and over 50 years, the ranch grew to more than 312,000 acres (1,260 km 2). In 1997 it was the world's largest beef ranch, and the land was worth an estimated $858 million.

  5. Bureau of Land Management - Wikipedia

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    The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering U.S. federal lands.Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the BLM oversees more than 247.3 million acres (1,001,000 km 2) of land, or one-eighth of the United States's total landmass.

  6. Desert farming - Wikipedia

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    Desert farming is the practice of developing agriculture in deserts. As agriculture depends upon irrigation and water supply, farming in arid regions where water is scarce is a challenge. However, desert farming has been practiced by humans for thousands of years. In the Negev, there is evidence to suggest agriculture as far back as 5000 BC. [1]

  7. The Wildlands Conservancy - Wikipedia

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    The Wildlands Conservancy is a nonprofit organization with a mission to preserve land for public recreation. It manages 25 preserves, detailed in the list of its preserves, covering over 200,000 acres (81,000 ha) across the western United States. The preserve system encompasses diverse landscapes including mountains, valleys, deserts, rivers ...

  8. Philmont Scout Ranch - Wikipedia

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    Philmont Scout Ranch is a ranch located in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States, near the village of Cimarron; it covers 140,177 acres (56,728 ha) of wilderness in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on the east side of the Cimarron Range of the Rocky Mountains.

  9. Gila National Forest - Wikipedia

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    The Forest administration also manage the part of the Apache National Forest in New Mexico which covers 614,202 acres for a total of 3.3 million acres managed by the Gila National Forest. Within the forest, the Gila Wilderness was established in 1924 as the US's first designated wilderness .

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