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How Much Land Does the Federal Government Own?
All Voices ^ | July 18, 2008

Posted on 07/27/2011 4:38:42 AM PDT by don-o

This data was originally published in Stanford Magazine. It demonstrates what percentage of the land in each state is owned directly by the federal government.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: agenda21; executiveorders; fedgov; fedzilla; un
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To: don-o

Thanks for posting this. Very interesting.


41 posted on 07/27/2011 7:14:28 AM PDT by gibsosa
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To: The Theophilus

Great post!


42 posted on 07/27/2011 7:17:12 AM PDT by gibsosa
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To: don-o; All

Early on in GWs term, didn’t he want to ‘sell’ government land and put it back into the private sector? Of course the idea was killed somehow.


43 posted on 07/27/2011 7:19:29 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Palin/Perry 2012)
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To: sayuncledave

Hear hear!

Use every penny to pay OFF the debt.


44 posted on 07/27/2011 7:20:29 AM PDT by listenhillary (It still increases the debt limit.)
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To: org.whodat
Forget to add that if you fools think you are going to sell off the eastern forest lands, there will be a whole bunch of hunters will to fight you that one and most of them are rather well armed.

So hunters wanting free access to hunting land isn't wanting something for nothing?

Bunch of free loaders need to lease or buy their own hunting property.

45 posted on 07/27/2011 7:26:14 AM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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To: Outlaw Woman

Hamilton pledge it for collateral to borrow money to pay off the national debt.


46 posted on 07/27/2011 7:27:54 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: org.whodat

Armed socialists pledge to protect “free” hunting land. How could they think of taking away our entitlement? We’ve hunted here for years.


47 posted on 07/27/2011 7:30:23 AM PDT by listenhillary (It still increases the debt limit.)
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To: anton
Other than National Parks and federal government locations all of this should be deeded back to the states.

Which clause of the Constitution authorizes the Federal Government to run a park system? I can't find it.

48 posted on 07/27/2011 7:31:54 AM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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To: org.whodat
And ANWR has nothing to do with the topic, if you want to drill for oil there get the senate to approve it.

It has everything to do with it. Yes, most of the land in the graphic is worthless, but ANWR drilling (and other mining, forestry, etc.) needs congressional approval because it's federal land. North Dakota is enjoying an oil boom because the oil is reachable on state or private land. It's a good thing no one around here is an advocate of excessive federal land ownership, such as yourself.

49 posted on 07/27/2011 7:32:23 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: don-o

50 posted on 07/27/2011 7:32:55 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Obama is a Communist, a Muslim, and an illegal alien)
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To: triumphant values
Back before your time little one, the American sports association made an agreement with the government, hunters would pay tax on ammunition and buy licenses and etc, for hunting privileges, it is the damn , hikers, bikers and horse trail people that are the free loader here. Maybe you should learn something about the subject. The multi-billion dollar hunting industries and all the taxes they pay means nothing to you.
51 posted on 07/27/2011 7:34:47 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: org.whodat
Back before your time little one, the American sports association made an agreement with the government, hunters would pay tax on ammunition and buy licenses and etc, for hunting privileges...

Repeal the tax and sell the land. Texas and Maine have fine hunting opportunities without barely any federal land ownership.

You're for less taxes and smaller government, right? That's why you post on FR, right?

52 posted on 07/27/2011 7:39:04 AM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal
Excessive my ass, close down all the jobs people have related to the sports and tourist business these land provide. Along with the taxes paid and you make up the difference. And anwr has nothing to do with the topic it has already pass into protected status, get a two thirds vote to reverse that. Never going to happen.
53 posted on 07/27/2011 7:40:27 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: listenhillary

Where do you get the word free from, your sit down area.


54 posted on 07/27/2011 7:42:49 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: sayuncledave

Sell? How about return it to the State from which it was, most likely, STOLEN. Then let the States figure what to do with it. The IFG (Imperial Federal Govt.) does not need any more $$, they need to stop spending, get out of our pockets and shrink down to its rightful size.


55 posted on 07/27/2011 7:45:57 AM PDT by i_robot73
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To: triumphant values
No i’m fine with the tax on ammunition and fire arms, and proud that I help provide those gun smiths with jobs, that is the American way, a free industry. We both are winners. But you not so much.
56 posted on 07/27/2011 7:47:07 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: org.whodat
No i’m fine with the tax on ammunition and fire arms, and proud that I help provide those gun smiths with jobs...

Oh, so you're fine with federal government taxing the exercising of Second Amendment rights. Good to know and predictable since it's right in line with your philosophy on locking up resources with unconstitutional federal ownership of land.

57 posted on 07/27/2011 7:51:59 AM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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To: i_robot73

Flunked history. Didn’t you???


58 posted on 07/27/2011 7:52:11 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: triumphant values
Real slow aren't you, are do you have a problem with the word agreement. And there is no such thing as unconstitutional Federal ownership of lands, trying reading about all the bogus law suits and the millions Utah pissed away trying to prove that point.
59 posted on 07/27/2011 7:57:15 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: org.whodat
Real slow aren't you, are do you have a problem with the word agreement.

Which clause is it again that authorizes the Fed Gov to enter into a taxing agreement with an organization to provide hunting land? Surely, someone as quick as yourself should be able to find it fast.

And there is no such thing as unconstitutional Federal ownership of lands...

If you're of the persuasion that argues that something the Fed Gov is doing is constitutional because the Fed Gov courts said so, then you are on the way, way wrong website for your philosophy.

60 posted on 07/27/2011 8:03:56 AM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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