A look at public domain and now
January 19, 2016
I’ve been watching closely the situation near Burns, Ore., in which armed men took over control of a small federal facility. The underlying dispute here arises because the federal government owns large quantities of land in the West.
I’m not sure how this situation came about in Oregon, but all western land started out as part of the public domain and, of course, the United States held it...
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