[deport]

Who owns this land, the Federal Gov’t or private owners?
This seems to be the Fed owned land managed by the BLM.

[Mr. Lucky]

The federal government owns the land.

[lacrew]

The federal government owns a huge amount of the western states. When the Midwest was settled, land was given away to the PEOPLE. But something changed when the west was settled, and Big Fed thought they could do a better job managing the land.