United States Department of the Interior-Forest Conservation (Classic Reprint)
Author: John F. Shanklin
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-09-30
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781391146515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from United States Department of the Interior-Forest Conservation Earliest conception of the Government's custodianship of the public domain was that such lands should be converted into cash for defray ing governmental expenses and for extinguishing the public dept. Dis posing of public domain was regarded as a real estate business, a viewpoint that continued until the present century. As a result of a sense of obligation to those who served in the armies during wartime, the public lands were regarded as suitable rewards for veterans: in deed, gifts of lands had been held out as inducements for enlistment into the army. Thus the early policy was dominated by the idea that the new public domain should be disposed of as a source of rev enue and as a substitute for cash to reward soldiers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.