The Carey Act and Conservation in Colorado is an environmental history of the endless missteps and unforeseen consequences that characterized Colorado's participation in the Carey Act--an 1894 federal law that granted one million acres of desert-classified public land to each western state for private irrigation development and settlement.
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The Carey Act and Conservation in Colorado is an environmental history of the endless missteps and unforeseen consequences that characterized Colorado's participation in the Carey Act--an 1894 federal law that granted one million acres of desert-classified public land to each western state for private irrigation development and settlement.
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