Public Land Acquisition in a National Land-use Program ...: Rural lands

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Page 9 - That the President of the United States may from time to time set apart and reserve in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations; and the President shall by public proclamation declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof.
Page 9 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 12 - ... mitigating floods, preventing impairment of dams and reservoirs, conserving surface and subsurface moisture, protecting the watersheds of navigable streams, and protecting the public lands, health, safety, and welfare, but not to build industrial parks or establish private industrial or commercial enterprises.
Page 1 - ... entirely free from problems of land acquisition. The difficulty of acquiring land for public investment at reasonable cost has been a subject of much discussion by the International Congress of Towns.1 The problems have been neatly summarised by the United States National Resources Planning Board : Land acquisition on a large scale, especially if the purposes to be served require blocking in of large contiguous areas, is at best a difficult, complicated, and slow process; and unless it is conducted...
Page 4 - ... to the States for the benefit of the counties in which the lands producing the moneys are situated.
Page 12 - Small, dry -land farms owned by families who wished to move to other areas; abandoned homesteads over which no satisfactory control could be exercised without Government purchase; and selected tracts located at strategic points throughout the whole project area on which water facilities could be developed for the improvement of the range. While plans for purchase were being developed, the cooperation of local stockmen in the area was sought in a joint attempt to put the range under constructive management.
Page 12 - State law and proceeded to lease privately owned land, State land, and public domain in addition to tracts purchased in the land-use program. Thus...

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