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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.
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 US Forest Service alone manages 193 million acres (780,000 km²) nationwide, or roughly 8% of the total land area in the United States. [3]
The Lure of the Land: A Social History of the Public Lands from the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal. (1970). Edwards, Richard. (2009) "Changing perceptions of homesteading as a policy of public domain disposal." Great Plains Quarterly 29.3 (2009): 179–202. online; Edwards, Richard. "Invited Essay: The New Learning about Homesteading."
Utah Republican politicians are attempting to strip protections for 18.5 million acres of Americas’ public lands, ... have stripped protections for 18.5 million acres of America’s public lands.
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 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 ...
As of 2022, the 42,826 protected areas covered 1,235,486 km 2 (477,024 sq mi), or 13 percent of the land area of the United States. [2] This is also one-tenth of the protected land area of the world. [ citation needed ] The U.S. also had a total of 871 National Marine Protected Areas , covering an additional 1,240,000 sq mi (3,200,000 km 2 ...
D.K. Boyd. Land area: 261,937 acres Roughly equal to: San Antonio, Texas Rancher and oilman D.K. Boyd owns over a quarter million acres of American land, including ranches in the Texas Panhandle ...