The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University: A Study in Land Policy and Absentee Ownership

by Paul Wallace Gates

Book Overview

A provision of the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 allowed Cornell University to acquire 500,000 acres of valuable timberland in northern Wisconsin. Although most land grant universities immediately sold the federal tracts that had been allocated to them, Cornell held the land to allow it to appreciate. While the university was guarding its rights as a trustee of this estate, dealing with the supervisors and tax collectors of several counties, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801477638
• ISBN13: 9780801477638
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Fall Creek Books
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher