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In 1835, Juan de Diós Maese and 28 other men petitioned the government of New Mexico for a land grant in the same area as Las Vegas Grandes, apparently unoccupied by the Baca family heirs. The grant, called the Town of Las Vegas Land Grant, was approved and the town of Las Vegas was established. The land in the grant was later measured to be ...
During the last years of Mexican rule, the New Mexican governor made several large individual grants to reward supporters and cronies, bolster possession of land on the periphery of New Mexico, and counter growing U.S. influence, including fear of invasion of New Mexico by either the U.S. or Texas which was independent from 1836 to 1845. [18]
A map of the Tierra Amarilla Land Grant in New Mexico and Colorado High country near Chama. Land or Death! Zapata Lives! Emiliano Zapata was a revolutionary and agrarian reformer in Mexico. The Tierra Amarilla Land Grant in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado consists of 594,516 acres (2,405.92 km 2) (929 sq miles) [2] of mountainous land ...
The original UU Bar Ranch land was purchased by Phillips in the 1920s and totaled over 300,000 acres. [3] When Phillips donated his UU Bar Ranch land west of what is now Highway 21 to the Boy Scouts of America in 1941 (approximately 127,000 acres) and retained the grazing land to the east.
The Taylor Grazing Act was enacted to regulate grazing on public lands to improve rangeland conditions and stabilize the livestock industry. Under Section 15 of the Act, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to lease vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved public domain lands situated outside established grazing districts for grazing purposes.
A $300 million state appropriation for land conservation across New Mexico was included in the House’s budget bill passed by the chamber and being considered by the Senate in the final days of ...
The Sangre de Cristo Land Grant in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico consists of 1,000,000 acres (4,000 km 2) of mostly arid land. It was awarded by the government of New Mexico to the Beaubien family in 1843. The land grant was originally settled by Hispanics from New Mexico.
In fact, almost 60 percent of the land in Nevada is used for livestock grazing, and at least 35 percent in New Mexico and Arizona. [6] [7] [8] Conversely, Nevada has the smallest amount of land used for crop production, while New Mexico has the most.