Mother Neff State Park (Image Credit: Wikipedia) In 1916, a small piece of land along Texas’ Leon River became the starting point for what would eventually become the state’s first state park. Isabell...
Tree plantation undergoing at Springwood (Image Credit: FDR Library Photo via National Park Service) In December 1943, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt donated his family home at Springwood in Hyde ...
In 1999, Al and Diane Johnson thought they had finally found the place where they could build a home and settle down. They had bought 828 acres on Texas’ Lamar Peninsula, a broad stretch of marsh, gra...
In 1993, Chile adopted an Indigenous Law that enabled land restitution In 1993, Chile passed a major Indigenous Law that created a formal process for returning ancestral land to Indigenous communities...
Maggie Walz Photo credit: National Park Service Born Margareeta Johanna Konttra Niiranen in Tornio, Finland, in 1861, Maggie Walz came to the United States at the age of 20 with almost nothing, just $...
Homestead soddy in Box Butte County. Source: History Nebraska – Nebraska.gov In 1870, Robert Ball Anderson, a former slave and Union Army veteran, filed a claim for a 160-acre homestead in Butle...
In a small rural corner of Jackson County, Ohio, where the hills still bear the scars of coal mining, one family chose to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary this year not with fireworks or parades,...
From Dredge to Delta: USACE, Partners Restore Roughly 70 Acres of Wetlands at Deal Island Wildlife Management Area A $13.5 million restoration project in Somerset County, Maryland, has successfully tu...
Shell Rock River Watershed District (Image Credit: www.shellrock.org) In 2020, Minnesota approved $1.918 million for the Shell Rock River Watershed Habitat Restoration Program – Phase IX. Accord...
Carolyn Carter had spent 50 years living in her modest home in Burbank, California, when a major residential development began transforming the neighbourhood around her. Properties along Hollywood Way...