Desert Land Act 1877
The federal government sold land cheap if the buyer would irrigate the soil within three years.
Forest Reserve Act 1891
This authorized the president to be able to set aside public forests as national parks and other reserves. This saved some 46 million acres of trees in the 1890s.
Carey Act of 1894
This act distributed federal land to the states under the condition that it would be irrigated and settled.
Newlands Act of 1902
This authorized Washington to take the money it made on the sale of public lands and use it for the development of better irrigation projects. It ended up being a revolving fund to help finance more of these projects. Dozens of dams on the major western rivers were created because of this.
How Progressives tended to view conservation...
The Progressives looked at nature in a certain way. They knew that it shouldn't be abused as it had been previously, but they didn't see it as John Muir or Hetch Hetchy did as a "temple". They wanted nature to be used, but used correctly. For example, Teddy Roosevelt would preserve a forest so he could hunt the deer.
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