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Federal lands are lands in the United States owned and managed by the federal government. [1] Pursuant to the Property Clause of the United States Constitution (Article 4, section 3, clause 2), Congress has the power to retain, buy, sell, and regulate federal lands, such as by limiting cattle grazing on them.
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.
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Map of territorial growth, 1775 Northwest territory Monument referencing the beginning point of the PLSS. Originally proposed by Thomas Jefferson to create a nation of "yeoman farmers", [1] the PLSS began shortly after the American Revolutionary War, when the federal government became responsible for large areas of land west of the original thirteen states.
Map of all federally owned 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 eight National Forests within the state of Washington are: . Colville National Forest [5]; Gifford Pinchot National Forest [5]; Idaho Panhandle National Forest [5]; Kaniksu National Forest [5]
This Bureau of Land Management map depicts the public domain lands surveyed and platted under the auspices of the GLO to facilitate the sale of those lands. The GLO oversaw the surveying, platting, and sale of the public lands in the Western United States and administered the Homestead Act [2] and the Preemption Act in disposal of public lands.
The Standard State Zoning Enabling Act (SZEA) is a federal planning document first drafted and published through the United States Commerce Department in 1922, [52] which gave states a model under which they could enact their own zoning enabling laws.