In a bid to rejuvenate local economies and increase population, several U.S. states are offering free land incentives. These initiatives aim to attract new residents and businesses, providing ...

Free land claims have a long history in the U.S., going back as far as the 1862 Homestead Act that granted citizens and intended citizens government land to live on and cultivate. However, the program ...

DENVER (CN) — Facing federal claims for building a fence in the San Juan National Forest land near Mancos, Colorado, a representative from the Free Land Holder Committee asked a federal magistrate in ...

MANCOS, Colo — A group identifying themselves as the Free Land Holder Committee, or the Free Land Holders, who built a fence across National Forest System lands in the San Juan National Forest, is now ...

The self-identified ambassador for a group trying to claim a swath of a public land in southwestern Colorado this week filed a rambling, partially handwritten response to a federal lawsuit trying to ...

A little over a month after the federal government filed a lawsuit for the Free Land Holders’ “unlawful” claim of 1,400 acres of Forest Service land outside Mancos, they submitted a 50-page response.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MANCOS — Stacks of historic documents and copies of nearly 100-year-old deeds blanketed a pingpong table in what Patrick Pipkin described as the Free Land ...