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... acres . Nearly one - half of all the land west of the Rockies and almost all of Alaska . The bulk of it - 470,400,000 acres - is controlled by the Bureau of Land Management in the Department of the Interior . Agriculture has nearly ...
... acres . Nearly one - half of all the land west of the Rockies and almost all of Alaska . The bulk of it - 470,400,000 acres - is controlled by the Bureau of Land Management in the Department of the Interior . Agriculture has nearly ...
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... acres ; the Oregon Compromise in 1846 another 180,000,000 acres ; the huge area of the Southwest , taken by conquest from Mexico in 1848 , brought 334,000,000 acres ; Texas was annexed in 1845 , and in 1850 a purchase from Texas added ...
... acres ; the Oregon Compromise in 1846 another 180,000,000 acres ; the huge area of the Southwest , taken by conquest from Mexico in 1848 , brought 334,000,000 acres ; Texas was annexed in 1845 , and in 1850 a purchase from Texas added ...
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... acres were accumulated by a succession of Presidents from Harrison to McKinley . Theodore Roosevelt added another 150,000,000 acres , and the Weeks Law , passed in 1911 , legalized the creation of forest reserves in the eastern states ...
... acres were accumulated by a succession of Presidents from Harrison to McKinley . Theodore Roosevelt added another 150,000,000 acres , and the Weeks Law , passed in 1911 , legalized the creation of forest reserves in the eastern states ...
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An Introduction | 9 |
Rivers Dams and Floods | 27 |
Water Pollution and the Great Water Shortage | 49 |
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