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cjel-9125	Phelps, Jess	Iowa’s Lost National Forests	2022	65	.pdf	application/pdf	30891	1089	47	To avoid competing with another agency for these lands, the Forest Ser- vice abandoned this purchase unit, and the National Forest Reserva- tion Commission formally approved abandonment of this purchase unit on November 14, 1938, before any lands had been acquired.202 The BAE’s efforts to acquire lands for resettlement purposes also were ultimately not successful.203 The twenty percent rule ultimately was reversed in fiscal year 1940, at least for Ohio and Indiana,204 but at that time, Iowa had very few parcels of land under contract.205 “[I]t became evident that the United States could not carry out its intentions in the State of Iowa and rec- ommended a resumption of a purchase program and a reduction of a purchase program and a reduction of the gross area of the three [ap- proved] units from 519,820 acres to 218,671 acres. Iowa’s Lost National Forests 5 will be explored, this was not just a theoretical exercise—it led to For- est Service’s purchase of thousands of acres of land in Iowa (and even more acreage was put under option agreements that were ultimately not exercised).13 The reason that Iowa did not end up with national forests appears to be the relative cost of procuring land in the state as compared to conservation opportunities elsewhere coupled with a change in policy during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second term that focused acquisition on areas where the Forest Service’s purchase programs were further along (a policy which would eventually be re- versed, but not in time for Iowa’s proposed national forest units).14 As will be examined, these factors combined to limit Forest Service pur- chases in Iowa to a non-viable scale (capped at thousands, not tens or hundreds of thousands, of acres).	cache/cjel-9125.pdf	txt/cjel-9125.txt