Timber Culture Act
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timber-culture-act-313-7422738
title:
Timber Culture Act
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The Timber Culture Act was a follow-up act to the Homestead Act. The Timber Culture Act was passed by Congress in 1873. The act allowed homesteaders to get another 160 acres (65 ha) of land if they planted trees on one-fourth of the land, because the land was "almost one entire plain of grass, which is and ever must be useless to cultivating man." The primary impetus for the act was to alter the climate and ecology of the Great Plains. Scientists in the 19th century believed that substantial aff
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1873 U.S. law
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Culture_Act
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2024-01-09T04:10:50Z
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