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National Conservation Lands poster for Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument (2014). National Conservation Lands, formally known as the National Landscape Conservation System, is a 35-million-acre (140,000 km 2) collection of lands in 873 federally recognized areas considered to be the crown jewels of the American West. [1]
344.50 acres (1.3941 km 2) Adams National Historical Park: Massachusetts: 23.82 acres (0.0964 km 2) Appomattox Court House National Historical Park: Virginia: 1,774.60 acres (7.1816 km 2) Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park: Rhode Island, Massachusetts: 1,489.00 acres (6.0258 km 2) Boston National Historical Park: Massachusetts
The highest levels of protection, as described by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), are Level I (Strict Nature Reserves & Wilderness Areas) and Level II (National Parks). The United States maintains 12 percent of the Level I and II lands in the world. These lands had a total area of 210,000 sq mi (540,000 km 2).
El Malpais National Conservation Area: 339,100 New Mexico: Fort Stanton – Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area: 24,950 New Mexico: Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area: 21,767 Arizona: Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area: 62,844 Colorado: John Wesley Powell National Conservation Area [1] 29,868 Utah: King Range National ...
Alaska has the most national forest land, with 21.9 million acres (8.9 million ha), followed by California (20.8 million acres, 8.4 million ha) and Idaho (20.4 million acres, 8.3 million ha). Idaho also has the greatest percent of its land in national forests, with 38.2 percent, followed by Oregon (24.7 percent) and Colorado (20.9 percent).
The National Wilderness Preservation System includes 806 wilderness areas protecting 111,889,002 acres (174,826.566 sq mi; 452,798.73 km 2) of federal land as of 2023. They are managed by four agencies: National Park Service (NPS) United States Forest Service (USFS) United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
An earlier version of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (S.222), introduced by Sen. John Durkin included making a Aniakchak National Park & Preserve. It was eventually made Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve. [6] S.222 - Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1979: Apostle Islands National Park Wisconsin 1930 ...
This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America's National Monuments (University of Minnesota Press, 2022). A highly personal study of 13 major monuments, it covers land use and ownership, the tension between nature's intrinsic value and the economic value of resource extraction and tourism, and the deeper historical ...