The federal government owns and manages approximately 650 million acres of land in the United States—about 30% of the nation’s total surface area. Four major federal land management agencies—the Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service and the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and National Park Service (NPS)—are responsible for managing about 95% of these lands.
Other prominent federal agencies involved in natural resources management include the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps).
The federal government owns 47% of the land in the western United States. The percentage of federally owned land varies by state, with Nevada having the highest percentage at 80.1% and Connecticut and Iowa having the lowest at 0.3%.
As of 2018, half of the West belongs to the federal government, including 48% of California, 69.1% of Alaska, 53.1% of Oregon, 48.1% of Arizona, 42.3% of Wyoming, 41.8% New Mexico, 36.6% of Colorado, 62% of Idaho, 66.5% of Utah, 28.5% Washington state, and 81% of Nevada. Look up your state here.
By all accounts, they are not good stewards of the land.
Some believe the Great Reset will be built in the American West. Some wealthy investors and builders erecting 15 Minute cities in the West.
Sen. Mike Lee discussed it with Tucker last night.
And that’s only half the story! There is no private property in America. It’s all (every single inch of it) has been stolen a long time ago. Thanks to Amendment 5’s provision for government confiscations (theft) of private property via eminent domain, property taxes, and public lands, there’s not one square inch of private property that is not now “owned”… Read more »
great news. now, instead of our social security system going belly-up, the feds can start selling off their land holdings to pay us what they’ve taken from our paychecks over the years.
Only 15 countries are larger than the US Federal Government landholdings.
The only real concern is deforestation, but there’s not many forests on a lot of that land to begin with. We need the forests, land that has been deforested causes real environmental impacts to weather. Global warming is not a concern when it comes to weather. But deforesting causes severe weather, tornadoes are drawn to land that has been deforested,… Read more »
We have more tree’s now than ever before. Reason….we can put the fires out!
Archeologists have discovered that entire ancient civilizations have collapsed and vanished from off of the face of the earth because of bad planning with how they farmed and built their cities. This has happened many times throughout history in many places. Mostly today we have learned nothing from that discovery.
Not true. The fires are so huge now, caused by the almost unlimited fuel laying on the forest floor, that they almost impossible to “put out”.
A bigger problem than “deforestation” is uncared for overgrown forests. Az, for example, has an average population of around 200 Ponderosa pines per acre when a healthy population is 80 & the forest floors are covered in layers of highly combustable pine needles. The forest service & BLM will not allow any loggong nor PROPER forest thinning & cleanup which… Read more »