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  2. Prairie restoration - Wikipedia

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    As an example, the U.S. state of Illinois alone once held over 35,000 square miles (91,000 km 2) of prairie land and now just 3 square miles (7.8 km 2) of that original prairie land is left. The over farming of this land as well as periods of drought and its exposure to the elements (no longer bound together by the tall grasses) was responsible ...

  3. Restoring land around abandoned oil and gas wells would free ...

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    A drilling pad for oil and gas in Robinson Township, Penn. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images CC BY-ND President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan proposes to spend US$16 billion plugging old oil and ...

  4. Land restoration - Wikipedia

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    Land restoration, which may include renaturalisation or rewilding, is the process of restoring land to a different or previous state with an intended purpose. That purpose can be a variety of things such as what follows: being safe for humans, plants, and animals; stabilizing ecological communities; cleaning up pollution; creating novel ecosystems; [1] or restoring the land to a historical ...

  5. Land rehabilitation - Wikipedia

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    Land rehabilitation as a part of environmental remediation is the process of returning the land in a given area to some degree of its former state, after some process (industry, natural disasters, etc.) has resulted in its damage. Many projects and developments will result in the land becoming degraded, for example mining, farming and forestry ...

  6. How To Get Free Land in the US in 2023 - AOL

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    Free land claims have a long history in the U.S., going back as far as the 1862 Homestead Act that granted citizens and intended citizens government land to live on and cultivate. Although the ...

  7. Conservation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    America had its own conservation movement in the 19th century, most often characterized by George Perkins Marsh, author of Man and Nature.The expedition into northwest Wyoming in 1871 led by F. V. Hayden and accompanied by photographer William Henry Jackson provided the imagery needed to substantiate rumors about the grandeur of the Yellowstone region, and resulted in the creation of ...

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  9. Reies Tijerina - Wikipedia

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    Reies López Tijerina (September 21, 1926 – January 19, 2015), was an activist who led a struggle in the 1960s and 1970s to restore New Mexican land grants to the descendants of their Spanish colonial and Mexican owners. [1]