Free Land North Dakota
Population and Land Area for 1990 Census Tracts
The documents providing information on the population, land area, and poverty data for the 1990 census tracts in each state are in Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF) and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 for viewing. The reader is available free from the Adobe web site. ... Population, Land Area, and Poverty Data ... [Read More]
BLM Home Page Text-Only Version
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, administers 261 million surface acres of America's public lands, located primarily in 12 Western States. The BLM sustains the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. ... ATTENTION: Your web browser does not support JavaScript or has JavaScript turned off. This web page contains links outside the BLM. Please note that the Bureau of Land Management does not control and cannot guarantee the relevance, timeliness, or accuracy of the materials provided by other agencies or organizations. The Federal Standards of Ethical Conduct prohibits the Bureau of Land Management from endorsing outside agencies and organizations. ... [Read More]
100th Annual Celebration by Icelanders
North Dakota residents like to celebrate their diverse ethnic heritage. For instance, in 1999, the town of Mountain honored its Icelandic cultural legacy by throwing its 100th Annual Celebration by Icelanders. More than 10,000 people from the United States, Canada, and Iceland, including the President of Iceland, came to celebrate. The festival's parade included a replica of a Viking ship. ... If the United States government offered you free land, would you take it? Thousands of people did when the government passed the Homestead Act in 1862. This act offered settlers 160 acres of free public land in the Midwest if they lived on and cultivated it for at least five years. This law was one of the reasons why so many immigrants moved as far west and north as North Dakota in the last half of the 19th century. ... [Read More]
Immigrants: North Dakota, Land of Opportunity
Northern Dakota Territory in 1870 was a sea of grass waiting for the plow share. With the end of the Civil War, America saw an unprecedented surge of immigrants land on its shores. Many of them were in search of free land offered through the Homestead Act. The immigrants and the land came together on the northern Great Plains from the 1870s into the early twentieth century. This explosion of people, farming, and building transformed, in a surprisingly short time, the flat, rich land of eastern North Dakota—the Red River Valley. The landscape became dotted with small farms, around which trees had been planted to shelter them from the almost incessant wind; with towns situated along the railroad lines like a web across the prairie; and the most impressive scene of all, the seemingly endless fields of grain. ... [Read More]
North Dakota Furtakers
This trapping program is intended to provide you with a base of knowledge that will help both beginning and active trappers to conduct their operations responsibly. Also, to have consideration for others who use the same land, with respect for the various objectives established by landowners or public land laws for managing individual units of land. This resource is based on the following source: 1997. North Dakota Furtakers Educational Manual. North Dakota Furtakers Association, North Dakota Game and Fish Department. 58pp. This resource should be cited as: 1997. North Dakota Furtakers Educational Manual. North Dakota Furtakers Association, North Dakota Game and Fish Department. 58pp. Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Home Page. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/tools/furtake/furtake.htm (Version 16MAR98). ... [Read More]
Natural Areas of North Dakota
Present day natural areas persist by benevolent land stewardship or by accident. Programs designed to recognize and spur protection of state-significant natural features on private or public lands have been created to maintain these features on the landscape. Nature preserves have been established through North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department and the Nature Conservancy. The State Parks and Recreation Department is mandated by the 1975 North Dakota Nature Preserves Act and Nature Conservancy is a nonprofit national conservation organization whose goal is to protect biological diversity. Closely related wildlife habitat protection has been identified among the goals of the new North Dakota Game and Fish Foundation. ... [Read More]
Region 8 News Release - EPA and Montana DEQ announce new proposed cleanup plan for the Milltown Reservoir Sediments Superfund Site in Montana
EPA and DEQ seriously considered these comments and now, after 9 months of review, modeling, peer review, analysis, and substantial additions for increased sediment control, EPA and DEQ have concluded that these changes improve the overall project and would result in a faster, more efficient cleanup. Importantly, this approach would reduce the cleanup time by 2 years and not create a waste repository on uncontaminated land. The current cleanup plan is estimated to cost $106 million and take 6 years (2004-2009) to complete. ... [Read More]
North Dakota Birding Hotline
Corey Ellingson and Clark Talkington found a male BLUE GROSBEAK on July 9 at a location about two miles from the Gonzalez sighting. Other birds that day included GOLDEN EAGLE, GRAY PARTRIDGE with six young, three SOLITARY SANDPIPERS in a stock pond, 23 BURROWING OWLS in three prairie dog towns, nine DICKCISSELS and “lots” of LARK BUNTINGS. Corey birded McKenzie Slough and Long Lake refuge the evening of July 5. He discovered 18 GREAT BLUE HERONS and 4 WHITE-FACED IBIS at McKenzie Slough and a STILT SANDPIPER at the refuge, plus 35 KILLDEER, 56 AMERICAN AVOCETS, 24 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 11 WILLETS, seven SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, an UPLAND SANDPIPER, 14 MARBLED GODWITS, eight LEAST SANDPIPERS, a WILSON’S SNIPE and 23 WILSON’S PHALAROPES. Contact Corey at tcellingson@juno.com . ... [Read More]
LCCP Links
U of Maryland: Global Land Cover ... Environmental Protection Agency - Earliest National Land Use/Land Cover Dataset (by 1:250K map quads in Arc/Info export format) ... The following organizations provide a range of spatial data including land cover data. If you wish to list your organization, please contact: lcac@usgs.gov . ... [Read More]
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