Sentences with phrase «significant land exchange»
President Bill Clinton's unilateral action creating the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument in 1996 led to a $ 50 million payment to the Permanent School Fund and a significant land exchange to protect Utah's education endowment.
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More than 10 000 years ago, agricultural societies accelerated these early defaunation and land clearing processes, ultimately replacing them with even more novel ecological transformations, including the culture of domesticated species, widespread soil tillage, sustained societal growth, and ever - increasing scales of material exchange, leading to globally significant transformation of the terrestrial biosphere by at least 3000 years before the present time.