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The National Association of State Trust Lands (NASTL) is a United States public-benefit nonprofit corporation that represents the state land administrators of 23 primarily western states. It was known as the Western States Land Commissioners Association ( WSLCA ) from its formation in 1949 until 2020.
The National Trust is the largest private landowner in the United Kingdom. [40] The Trust's land holdings account for almost 250,000 hectares (620,000 acres; 2,500 km 2; 970 sq mi), mostly of countryside. [1]
Knole (/ n oʊ l /) is a British country house and former archbishop's palace owned by the National Trust.It is situated within Knole Park, a 1,000-acre (400-hectare) park located immediately to the south-east of Sevenoaks in west Kent.
A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, [8] or a beneficiary under the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994. [9]
This is the land that is looked after by the National Trust and includes coast, countryside and heritage landscapes. This does not include National Trust properties, unless they contain significant estate land. The list is subdivided using the National Trust's own system which divides England into nine regions.
The United States Supreme Court has upheld the broad powers of the federal government to deal with federal lands, for example having unanimously held in Kleppe v. New Mexico [7] that "the complete power that Congress has over federal lands under this clause necessarily includes the power to regulate and protect wildlife living there, state law notwithstanding."
This Bureau of Land Management map depicts the public domain lands surveyed and platted under the auspices of the GLO to facilitate the sale of those lands.. The GLO oversaw the surveying, platting, and sale of the public lands in the Western United States and administered the Homestead Act [2] and the Preemption Act in disposal of public lands.
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