{"id":2642,"date":"2008-11-14T06:39:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T10:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2008-11-13T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T02:20:23","slug":"who-owns-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/14\/who-owns-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Owns the US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this map in my readings and wanderings at an interesting blog site <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/17\/291-federal-lands-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_self\">StrangeMaps<br \/>\n<\/a>. Surprising, to me at least, the percentages of the western states owned by the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/map-owns_the_west.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2643\" title=\"map-owns_the_west\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/map-owns_the_west.jpg?resize=300%2C246\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/map-owns_the_west.jpg?resize=300%2C246&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/.gilda\/nyoatrader\/nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/map-owns_the_west.jpg?w=2000 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The United States government has direct ownership of almost 650 million acres of land (2.63 million square kilometers<\/span><span>) &#8211; nearly<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> <strong>30% of its total territory<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0These 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\u00c2\u00a0are 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/\" target=\"_self\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this map in my readings and wanderings at an interesting blog site StrangeMaps . Surprising, to me at least, the percentages of the western states owned by the Federal Government. The United States government has direct ownership of almost 650 million acres of land (2.63 million square kilometers) &#8211; nearly 30% of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politically-incorrect","wpcat-75-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe0C4-GC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}