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  2. These People Own the Most Land in America - AOL

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    Yet a handful, like Jeff Bezos and Ted Turner, are prominent billionaires who bought huge tracts of land either for a business venture or simply for their own private use. ... Land area: 2,411,000 ...

  3. Edward V. Babcock - Wikipedia

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    Concerned about the rapid transformation of large areas of rural land into suburbs, Babcock wanted to set aside protected areas of land for recreation. To achieve this, he personally purchased two huge tracts of land, totaling around 4,000 acres. He sold the land to the county at cost to create North and South Parks.

  4. Santa Ana Pueblo, BIA sign vast tract into trust - AOL

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    Jun. 12—PUEBLO OF SANTA ANA — When a 60,000-acre tract of prime ancestral land hit on the market in 2016, Pueblo of Santa Ana leaders snapped it up in just 30 days. But another eight years ...

  5. Federal lands - Wikipedia

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    DoD thus administers approximately 1% of federal land. DOD land is mostly military bases and reservations. [6] The largest single DOD-owned, all-land tract is the 2.3-million-acre White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. [27] Together, the BLM, FWS, NPS, Forest Service, and DOD manage about 96% of federal land. [6]

  6. Land reforms by country - Wikipedia

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    Land in Bolivia was unequally distributed – 92% of the cultivable land was held by large estates – until the Bolivian national revolution in 1952. Then, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement government abolished forced peasantry labor and established a program of expropriation and distribution of the rural property of the traditional landlords to the indigenous peasants.

  7. Conservation project buys huge tracts of coalfields forest - AOL

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    The nonprofit Nature Conservancy announced Monday it has partnered with private investors to acquire over a quarter-million acres (101,000 hectares) of forest land in the coalfields of Tennessee ...

  8. United Fruit Company - Wikipedia

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    The United Fruit Company (UFCO) owned huge tracts of land in the Caribbean lowlands. It also dominated regional transportation networks through its International Railways of Central America and its Great White Fleet of steamships. In addition, UFCO branched out in 1913 by creating the Tropical Radio and Telegraph Company.

  9. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    An extension of the homestead principle in law, the Homestead Acts were an expression of the Free Soil policy of Northerners who wanted individual farmers to own and operate their own farms, as opposed to Southern slave owners who wanted to buy up large tracts of land and use slave labor, thereby shutting out free white farmers.

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