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4 Assessing The Social Effects of Federal Land Acquisition
4 Assessing The Social Effects of Federal Land Acquisition
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and calls for environmentad and social impact assessment (SIA) when significant federal actions occur.1 Between 4 and 5 million acres of private land have been acquired by the federal government through the Land and Water Conservation Fund ~WCF)
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INHOLDERS AND FEDERAL LAND ACQUISITION Inholder concerns are an important part of American federal land policy. The national media frequently report on property owners angered over diminished property rights in and around federal landhold~ngs, and several accounts present the inholder perspective in detail (Arnold, 1982; Williams, 1982~.2 Membership in the National Inholders Association and kindred organizations is on the rise.
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Inholders and related social issues on federal lands first entered the pages of American conservation history with the creation of Yosemite Park in 1864. Inholder claims to private property rights divided Congress: The House of Representatives supported such rights, but the Senate ardently sought a park without infolders a view that prevailed after Supreme Court intervention.
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Between 1940 and 1960, the federal reacquisition agenda led to major emphasis on inholder buyouts, a priority carried on in the EWCF legislation (Glicksman and Coggins, 1984~.3 By the early 1970s, however, roughly half the land within the 51 national forests in the Eastern United States remained in private hands (Heritage, 1974) , and inholder protests against buy-out strategies surfaced in many national parks, monuments, battlefields, seashores, and wild and scenic river corridors.
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Social and environmental impact assessments have been modified in the past decade to adopt this contingency-based, longitudinal approach to their subjects. The longer the life of a project or action, the more guarded initial SIA predictions must be and Me more compelling periodic replication and restudy becomes.
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