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  2. Federal lands - Wikipedia

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    The federal government manages about 640 million acres (2.6 million km 2) of land in the United States, which is about 28% of the total land area of 2.27 billion acres (9.2 million km 2). [5] [6] The majority of federal lands (610.1 million acres (2.469 million km 2) or 95 percent area in 2015) are administered by the Bureau of Land Management ...

  3. Utah lawsuit challenges federal control of a third of its land

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    The unappropriated lands the state is seeking to manage are 18.5 million acres (7.5 million hectares) controlled by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, or 34% of the land in Utah, the state said ...

  4. Utah Transfer of Public Lands Act - Wikipedia

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    The Federal government spent approximately US$247 million managing land in Utah during 2012, about $8 per acre, and employed 2100 people (not including the National Park Service, which is not involved as Park Service lands are to remain with the Federal government, per the original legislation.) [14] Some analysts expect management of the lands ...

  5. California wants to harness more than half its land to combat ...

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    To get there, the state seeks to conduct 1.5 million acres of wildfire risk reduction activity per year by 2030; 2 million acres per year by 2038, and 2.5 million acres per year by 2045, most of ...

  6. Public lands in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The federal government owns 640 million acres, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States. About 95 per cent of these acres are managed by four agencies: Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the United States National Park Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, or the Fish and Wildlife Service and the United States Forest Service.

  7. $50M buys 10K acres of Jasper, Hampton County land to ... - AOL

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    In a $50 million purchase, the state’s Department of Natural Resources and several partners secured more than 10,000 acres of land in Hampton and Jasper counties to serve as a public heritage ...

  8. Railroad land grants in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The land rush climaxed in the 1870s in Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, as the population more than doubled from 1.0 million in 1870 to 2.4 million in 1880, while the number of farms tripled from 99,000 to 302,000, and the improved acreage quintupled from 5.0 million acres to 24.6 million. [16]

  9. Bill Gates says he now owns 1 out of every 4000 acres of all ...

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    24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. ... Given there are more than 893 million acres of farmland in the U.S., this number ...