land grant
(US) A grant of land by the US government to encourage the development of western states, especially land transportation and practical higher education.
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‘Historic’ agreement between NM land grant and Forest Service to revitalize 200-year-old acequia sourcenm.com/2026/05/05/h...
A northern New Mexico land grant has signed an agreement with the Santa Fe National Forest intended to ease more than a century of tension.
The stone, now in the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, records a land grant from the reign of Marduk-nadin-ahhe (c. 1099–1082 B.C.). For those like me who want to know the age of things...
‘Historic’ agreement between NM land grant and Forest Service to revitalize 200-year-old acequia sourcenm.com/2026/05/05/h...
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(US) A grant of land by the US government to encourage the development of western states, especially land transportation and practical higher education.
“‘Historic’ agreement between NM land grant and Forest Service to revitalize 200-year-old acequia sourcenm.com/2026/05/05/h...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“A northern New Mexico land grant has signed an agreement with the Santa Fe National Forest intended to ease more than a century of tension.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The stone, now in the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, records a land grant from the reign of Marduk-nadin-ahhe (c. 1099–1082 B.C.). For those like me who want to know the age of things...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“‘Historic’ agreement between NM land grant and Forest Service to revitalize 200-year-old acequia sourcenm.com/2026/05/05/h...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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