Inholding

Inholding

An inholding is privately owned land inside the boundary of a national park, national forest, state park, or similar publicly owned, protected area. Inholdings result from private ownership of lands prior to the designation of the protected park or forest area, which then end up grandfathered within the legally designated boundary.

In the United States, the main causes of inholdings are checkerboarding due to railroad land grants under the Pacific Railway Acts beginning in 1862, homestead claims under the 1862 Homestead Act, and mining claims patented under the General Mining Act of 1872, along with the more recent Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. The railroad checkerboarding primarily affects national forests, while inholdings due to the other types of claims occur frequently within national parks and national forests throughout the western United States. Over the last several decades, conservation groups have lobbied the United States Congress to acquire inholdings especially within designated wilderness areas, either by direct purchase or via land exchange which trades the inholding for other federal lands located outside of national parks or wilderness areas.

References and external links

*cite journal
last = Tanner
first = Randy
year = 2002
month = December
title = Inholdings within Wilderness
journal = International Journal of Wilderness
volume = 8
issue = 3
pages = 9–14
url = http://www.wilderness.net/library/documents/Tanner1.pdf
accessdate = 2007-02-22
* [http://www.wildernesslandtrust.org Wilderness Land Trust]
* [http://naturenoted.blogspot.com/2005/01/outing-inholdings.html Nature Noted: Outing the Inholdings]


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  • Inholding — Inhold In*hold , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inheld}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inholding}.] To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • inholding — noun Date: 1947 privately owned land inside the boundary of a national park …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • inholding — inholder, n. /in hohl ding/, n. a tract of land under private ownership within a national park. [IN 1 + HOLDING] * * * …   Universalium

  • inholding — n. private parcel of land owned by an inholder …   English contemporary dictionary

  • inholding — in•hold•ing [[t]ˈɪnˌhoʊl dɪŋ[/t]] n. cvb a tract of land under private ownership within a national park • Etymology: 1970–75; amer. in′hold er, n …   From formal English to slang

  • inholding — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: in (IV) + holding : privately owned land inside the boundary of a national park * * * inholder, n. /in hohl ding/, n. a tract of land under private ownership within a national park. [IN 1 + HOLDING] …   Useful english dictionary

  • Ashdown Gorge Wilderness — Infobox protected area | name = Ashdown Gorge Wilderness iucn category = Ib caption = locator x = 55 locator y = 85 location = Utah, USA nearest city = Cedar City, UT lat degrees = 37 lat minutes = 38 lat seconds = lat direction = N long degrees …   Wikipedia

  • Highlands Historic District (Moose, Wyoming) — Infobox nrhp | name =Highlands Historic District nrhp type = hd caption = nearest city= Moose, Wyoming lat degrees = 43 lat minutes = 42 lat seconds = 32 lat direction = N long degrees = 110 long minutes = 43 long seconds = 45 long direction = W… …   Wikipedia

  • Inheld — Inhold In*hold , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inheld}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inholding}.] To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Inhold — In*hold , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inheld}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inholding}.] To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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