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Trivia Tidbit of the Day: Part 702 -- Government Land.

Federal Government Owns A Lot Of Land -

There are few more striking measures of the government’s size than the land mass of the Federal estate. The vast majority of federal lands fall within one of four agencies: the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of Agriculture’s US Forest Service. At over 258 million acres, the Bureau of Land Management alone is bigger than France and Germany combined. When combined with the other aforementioned agencies, the land area is equal that of ten European nations.

In the United States, 30% of the land is owned by the federal government. In Texas, only 2.6% of the land is owned by the federal government.

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Posted by Will Franklin · 20 November 2009 11:07 AM