Progressive Era Conservation/Land Use Acts

Progressive View of Conservation - most tended to lean towards using the beauty as in preserving it but using it wisely.

Desert Land Act 1877 - the government sold desert land cheap in return for a promise that the land would be irrigated within three years

Forest Reserve Act (1891) - authorized the president to set aside public forests as national parks and other reserves

Carey Act (1894) - distributed federal land on the condition that it would be irrigated

Newlands Act (1902) - Washington collected money from the sale of public lands out west and used it to irrigate