The U.S. Bureau of Land Management calls it a birthday present from Uncle Sam to Oregon to help mark its 150th year as a state. The BLM has transferred a 640-acre parcel of juniper- and sagebrush-covered land south of Prineville to the state of Oregon. The Juniper Canyon parcel is the latest transfer between the federal government and the state since a 1991 federal court ruling that the BLM owed Oregon about 5,200 acres of land the state should have received back in 1859. Oregon Department of State Lands officials says the BLM has now transferred about 3,600 acres to the state — leaving only about 1,600 acres to go...AP...
That's not too bad. Just 150 years since they became a state and only 18 years since a court mandated the transfer.
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