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The Lake Hill Administrative Site Affordable Housing Act (H.R. 2337; Pub. L. 113–141 (text)) is a U.S. public law that requires the secretary of agriculture to sell 40 acres of Forest Service land near Frisco, Colorado. Summit County, Colorado, would use the land to build affordable housing. [1]
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering 193 million acres (780,000 km 2) of land. [5]
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. [1] 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. [2]
(The Center Square) – More than 5,400 acres in west Tennessee will open as the state's 16th forest in 2025, the Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry said. The nearly $17 million ...
DoD thus administers approximately 1% of federal land. DOD land is mostly military bases and reservations. [6] The largest single DOD-owned, all-land tract is the 2.3-million-acre White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. [27] Together, the BLM, FWS, NPS, Forest Service, and DOD manage about 96% of federal land. [6]
The 40 Acre Conservation League acquired more than 650 acres of Sierra forest land in the Emigrant Gap area of Placer County in August, using a $3 million award from a pair of conservation groups ...
1922: Secretary of Agriculture authorized the selling of national forest land in exchange for private land of equal value, which changed the national forest service from a conservation organization to one that focuses on the logging industry. [5] 1925: National forests were authorized to grant grazing permits for 10 years. [5]
A park is set to be created on land in south-west London that has lain unused for more than 10 years. The site, at Oldfield Road Meadow in Hampton, will become a public nature conservation area ...