Articles by brankin
federal lands in the us
Posted June 03, 2006 at 10:39 PM
This map shows visually the changes in federal land policy in the US:
The north-south line separating the west from the east shows a change in policy as western expansion progressed: a newly assertive federal government, the beginnings of the US conservation movement, and an admission that areas like the Great Basin could not be developed [...]
