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The lure of the land: A social history of the public lands from the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal (U of Nebraska Press, 1970) online; Gates, Paul Wallace. History of public land law development (US Government Printing Office, 1968). online; Hibbard, Benjamin Horace. A history of the public land policies (1924) online; Kammer, Sean.
Public domain (land): Land owned and managed by the Federal government. Synonymous with public lands. National Parks and National Forests are a large part of the public domain land today. The original public domain included the lands that were turned over to the Federal Government by the original thirteen states and areas acquired from the ...
Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009; Long title: An act to designate certain land as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, to authorize certain programs and activities in the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
The 193 million acres (780,000 km 2) of public land that are managed as national forests and grasslands are collectively known as the National Forest System. These lands are located in 44 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands and comprise about 9% of the total land area in the United States. The lands are organized into 155 national ...
The National Landscape Conservation System lands constitute just about 12% of the lands managed by the BLM. [76] Congress passed Title II of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-11) to make the system a permanent part of the public lands protection system in the United States.
Lands held by the United States in trust for Native American tribes are generally not considered public lands. [8] There are some 55 million acres (0.22 million km 2 ) of land held in trust by the federal government for Indian tribes and almost 11 million acres (45 thousand km 2 ) of land held in trust by the federal government for individual ...
The National Landscape Conservation System Act was signed into law in March 2009 as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. The Act permanently unified the individual units as a public lands System, protecting the System in law so that it would no longer exist at the pleasure of each president.
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (1980): This Act specifically provided for the designation and conservation of public lands in Alaska. This added about 27 million acres (110,000 km 2) to the National Wilderness Preservation System along with several wild and scenic rivers. With this Act, Congress hoped to preserve the unaltered ...