Why did the homestead act end

The regions reached the population threshold of becoming a state, after that the management of that land became too great a financial burden for the individual state.

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The vast majority of that remaining land is garbage and unsuitable for farming.

On a local level, there are a few towns which will give you free land if you move to them though.

>nevada state government blocking the Yucca nuclear repository that would allow for other states to finally dispose of their half-century-old nuclear waste

fuck nevada