"The management of public lands in the West is a matter of long-standing and oft-contentious debates. The government must balance the interests of a variety of

In the United States, the federal government owns more than a quarter of the nation’s landscape—nearly 640 million acres; or more than a million square mile

The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation's land and manage it primarily for recreation, education, and cons

The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States. Four agencies administer 608.9 million