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- United States.
- Weeks Act
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- found: Lands worth saving, 2018:ECIP t.p. (Weeks Act of 1911) galley (Most people familiar with the Weeks Act associate it with the establishment of national forests in the eastern United States. However, the Weeks Act did more for eastern forest conservation than fund the purchase of private forestlands by the federal government. The Weeks Act initiated the practice of cooperation among federal, state, and private landowners that is the foundation of cooperative fire control and protection today)
- found: Wikipedia, July 30, 2018(The Weeks Act is a federal law (36 Stat. 961) enacted by the United States Congress on March 1, 1911. Introduced by Massachusetts Congressman John W. Weeks and signed into law by President William Howard Taft, the law authorized the US Secretary of Agriculture to "Examine, locate and recommend for purchase ... such lands within the watersheds of navigable streams as ... may be necessary to the regulation of flow of navigable streams...." This meant that the federal government would be able to purchase private land if the purchase was deemed necessary to protect rivers' and watersheds' headwaters in the eastern United States)
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- 2018-07-30: new
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