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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]
National Public Lands Day; Observed by: Public lands at the federal, state, regional and local level within the United States, the District of Columbia and territories of the United States: Celebrations: Volunteer to improve the health of public lands, parks and historic sites. Date: 4th Saturday in September: 2024 date: September 28 () 2025 date
Double rainbow at San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, Arizona. National Conservation Area is a designation for certain protected areas in the United States.They are nature conservation areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the National Landscape Conservation System.
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.
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 ...
National reserves are partnerships between federal, state, and local authorities. Within the boundaries of the three national reserves are combinations of federal land (Park Service or National Wildlife Refuges), state parks and forests, local public lands, and private properties. Two national reserves are currently managed as official units.
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).
The ultimate goal was to protect all historic and prehistoric sites on U.S. federal lands, [2] and it has resulted in designation of a wide variety of ecological, cultural and historical sites. President Theodore Roosevelt established the first national monument, Devils Tower in Wyoming, on September 24, 1906. [3]