Progressive Era Conservation/ Land Use Acts

Progressives like TR were all for saving the real big sticks (Reel Big Sticks?) and TR himself left a deep impression of conservation in America.

The Desert Act of 1877 sold arid land cheaply on the condition that the purchaser irrigate the soil within three years.Johnny was too late in realizing that this was not the Dessert Land Act of 1877.

The Forest Reserve Act of 1891 set aside public forests as national parks and other reserves.Smokey knows when you've finished the job.

The Carey Act of 1894 distributed federal land to the states on the condition that it be irrigated and settled.

The Carey Act of 1894: 8+9=17 9-4+1=6 6+17= ...23!

By the Newlands Act of 1902, the government collected money from the sale of public lands in the West and used the it for the development of irrigation projects .

One can judge a man's success by the bounty of his irrigation system. Chicks dig water.