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Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
…and the Indian casinos, loggers, and soldiers, too.
Not particularly relevant to Portland real estate, but I found it interesting, nonetheless. This map details the percentage of state territory owned by the federal government in the U.S. Oregon ranks #4 overall, with 53.1% owned by the Feds.
Map courtesy of David Kennedy, from the fascinating article in Stanford Alumni magazine.
From Strange Maps:
The United States government has direct ownership of almost 650 million acres of land (2.63 million square kilometers) – nearly 30% of its total territory. These federal lands are used as military bases or testing grounds, nature parks and reserves and indian reservations, or are leased to the private sector for commercial exploitation (e.g. forestry, mining, agriculture). They are managed by different administrations, such as the Bureau of Land Management, the US Forest Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the US Department of Defense, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the US Bureau of Reclamation or the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The top 10 list of states with the highest percentage of federally owned land:
| Rank | State | Percentage |
| 1. | Nevada | 84.5% |
| 2. | Alaska | 69.1% |
| 3. | Utah | 57.4% |
| 4. | Oregon | 53.1% |
| 5. | Idaho | 50.2% |
| 6. | Arizona | 48.1% |
| 7. | California | 45.3% |
| 8. | Wyoming | 42.3% |
| 9. | New Mexico | 41.8% |
| 10. | Colorado | 36.6% |
Connecticut and Rhode Island have the least amount of federally-owned land at 0.4%.
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Good stuff! Now why can’t we sell off some of this land so the states can get some property taxes and the national debt paid down a bit?
These lands bring in more in income every year than we pay to manage them — they have contributed a hundred billion or so to pay down the national debt over the past 40 years. They got us the transcontinental railroad. They established many of our finest universities.
Scone, how about you take economics at one of those Public Lands universities, and figure out what we’re really talking about here, and then come back with a proposal?
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