Federal Land Ownership: Overview and Data

Abstract

The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States. Four major federal land management agencies administer 606.5 million acres of this land (as of September 30, 2018). They are the Bureau of Land Management (BLM),Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and National Park Service (NPS) in the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Forest Service (FS) in the Department of Agriculture. A fifth agency, the Department of Defense (excluding the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers), administers 8.8 million acres in the United States (as of September 30, 2017), consisting of military bases, training ranges, and more. Together, the five agencies manage about 615.3 million acres, or 27% of the U.S. land base. Many other agencies administer the remaining federal acreage.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 21, 2020
Accession Number
AD1169931

Entities

People

  • Carol H. Vincent
  • Laura A. Hanson

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agriculture
  • Base Closures
  • Border Security
  • California
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • District Of Columbia
  • Environment
  • Environmental Protection
  • Habitats
  • Homeland Security
  • Law
  • Military Training
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Natural Resources
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Water Resources
  • Wildlife

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