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Duck stamps and the Dingell-Johnson Act, conservation the sportsman paid for Hunters and anglers asked to be taxed to save wildlife, first with the 1934 duck stamp and then the 1950 Dingell-Johnson Act. The user-pay model and its record. The Homestead Act of 1862 and the American Habit of Earning Your Own Ground The Homestead Act offered 160 acres to anyone who would live on the land and work it for five years, and made ownership through labor an American creed. Keep the Farm a Farm With a Conservation Easement, Step by Step A conservation easement lets a family keep working its land while selling or donating the right to develop it. The steps, from choosing rights to the IRS rules. Hunters and Anglers Pay for American Conservation and Few People Know It Sportsmen asked Congress to tax their own gear to restore wildlife. Here is how duck stamps, Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson built the user-pays model. Theodore Roosevelt Made Conservation a Conservative Cause, and It Still Is Roosevelt, a hunter and rancher, treated conservation as stewardship of an inheritance. That is a conservative idea first, and the record shows why. The Antiquities Act Says Smallest Area Compatible, So Read the Text Again The 1906 Antiquities Act limits a monument to the smallest area compatible with protecting its objects. Read the text beside monuments of millions of acres. Why Washington Owns Most of Nevada and What the Property Clause Allows Article IV's Property Clause lets Congress dispose of federal land, and the West calls it a trusteeship, not a permanent estate. The text and the cases.