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A Third of America Belongs to America

CGP Grey · 18.7M views · 2018-11-26 · 8:55

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Overview

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.

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

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2018–2020

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Politics & history (other)Environment, agriculture & food systems
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federal landblmnational parksland ownershipunited states

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cbm-vic-20 · 2020-09 · Recommendation

CGP Grey did an interesting video on the differences between the agencies that own federal land in the US: [VIDEO] (Start from the beginning for more context)

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closeparen · 2020-06 · Recommendation

You might enjoy CGP Grey's "What is federal land?" [0]. Making resources available to American industry is one of the government's purposes in owning it. There are certainly disagreements over how well that's balanced against other goals, or against the long term future. But it's not like it's inherently corrupt that federal land is fed into the economy. That's what it's for. [0] [VIDEO]

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smegger001 · 2020-02 · Recommendation

Yeah CGP Grey had a god video about federal land ownership the majorty of land in western states is federal land. [VIDEO] Its kind of ridiculous. how little control states have over the land within their own boarders.

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