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In the United States, governmental entities at all levels- including townships, cities, counties, states, and the federal government- all manage land which are referred to as either public lands or the public domain. The federal government owns 640 million acres, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States.
Most of the public land managed by the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management is in the Western states. Public lands account for 25 to 75 percent of the total land area in these states. [2] The US Forest Service alone manages 193 million acres (780,000 km²) nationwide, or roughly 8% of the total land area in the United States. [3]
The United States Supreme Court has upheld the broad powers of the federal government to deal with federal lands, for example having unanimously held in Kleppe v. New Mexico [7] that "the complete power that Congress has over federal lands under this clause necessarily includes the power to regulate and protect wildlife living there, state law notwithstanding."
The government promised soldiers land in lieu of pay. After the Revolution, the new federal government owned all the public land except that within the 13 original colonies and a few non-original states. The land owned by the government was called The Public Domain. The Land Act of 1785 gave land warrants to the soldiers to fulfill the promise ...
In the United States, a public land state is a U.S. state in which all lands were originally public lands owned by the United States federal government, which later transferred them to private ownership – or to the ownership of state or local governments – through land grants.
As of 2022, the 42,826 protected areas covered 1,235,486 km 2 (477,024 sq mi), or 13 percent of the land area of the United States. [2] This is also one-tenth of the protected land area of the world. [ citation needed ] The U.S. also had a total of 871 National Marine Protected Areas , covering an additional 1,240,000 sq mi (3,200,000 km 2 ...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering U.S. federal lands.Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the BLM oversees more than 247.3 million acres (1,001,000 km 2) of land, or one-eighth of the United States's total landmass.
The United States national forest comprises about 132 million acres. [9] There are 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands containing 193 million acres (297,000 mi 2 /769 000 km 2) of land. [10] These lands comprise 8.5 percent of the total land area of the United States, an area about the size of Texas. [1]