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- ↑ "Board Proposed On Land Appeals", Arizona Daily Star (February 13, 1963), p. 6.
- ↑ "Western Solons Meet Roadblock In Effort To Change Land Policy", The Roseburg News-Review (May 6, 1963), p. 2.
- ↑ David L. Hughes, Practice and Procedure before the Interior Board of Land Appeals 14 Pub. Land L. Rev. 113 (June 1993), p. 115-116.
- 1 2 3 "About the Interior Board of Land Appeals". United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved July 15, 2021.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . - ↑ "Interior Board of Land Appeals | Open Energy Information". openei.org. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
