"How Michigan handles its state owned lands" : report / by Wade DeVries.

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"How Michigan handles its state owned lands" : report / by Wade DeVries.

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Box 4, folder 3 of RG 62-16, series 77. DeVries outlines state land management and legislation from the years 1893 to 1930. The counties that are discussed are located in the upper Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula. The report basically discusses tax homestead lands, and the forfeiture of some of that property, particularly that property not suited to agricultural development. It also gives a good description of the Department of Conservation's first efforts to attain and consolidate land for conservation (state forests, state parks, game refuges, etc.).

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Michigan. Lands Division

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Michigan. Department of Conservation

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The 1925 Clark-McNary Act expanded the provisions of 1911 Federal legislation creating the National Forest System (Weeks Law). It made it easier for the United States Department of Agriculture to buy land from those sellers whose property was located within the National Forest System. The act also enabled the National Forest Service to work with state officials in forest protection and reforestation efforts. From the description of Documentation relating to the acquisition of the Eas...

DeVries, Wade.

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