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A Third of America Belongs to America

CGP Grey · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Politics & history (other)Environment, agriculture & food systems

What it is

CGP Grey explains what it means that a third of the United States is federally owned land. It describes the agencies that manage it and why so much of it is in the western states.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Offered as the quick, clear explainer on US federal land ownership whenever land use in the West comes up.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “CGP Grey had a god video about federal land ownership the majorty of land in western states is federal land.”

    Explains how much western land is federally owned

    smegger001, 2020-02 · Recommendation · in “Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (2017)”

  2. “You might enjoy CGP Grey's "What is federal land?" [0].”

    Explains what federal land is and why government owns it

    closeparen, 2020-06 · Recommendation · in “A Guy Named Craig May Soon Have Control over a Large Swath of Utah”

  3. “CGP Grey did an interesting video on the differences between the agencies that own federal land in the US”

    Differences between agencies that own federal land

    cbm-vic-20, 2020-09 · Recommendation · in “The end of dispersed camping?”

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Topics: federal land, blm, national parks, land ownership, united states

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