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Federal lands

Federally managed lands in the 50 states, including subsurface rights. This map includes federal lands held in trust for Native Americans, which may not be considered federal lands in other contexts.
Federal lands via managing government bureau
  Bureau of Indian Affairs
  Bureau of Land Management
  Bureau of Reclamation
  Department of Defense (includes Army Corps of Engineers projects)
  Fish and Wildlife Service
  Forest Service
  National Park Service
  Tennessee Valley Authority
  Other agencies

Federal lands are lands in the United States owned and managed by the federal government.[1] Pursuant to the Property Clause of the United States Constitution (Article 4, section 3, clause 2), Congress has the power to retain, buy, sell, and regulate federal lands, such as by limiting cattle grazing on them. These powers have been recognized in a long series of United States Supreme Court decisions.[2][3]

In Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 the United States Constitution empowers the federal government with exclusive legislative authority like that exercised for Washington D.C. over "Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, Dock-yards, and other needful Buildings."[4]

The federal government manages about 640 million acres (2.6 million km2) of land in the United States, which is about 28% of the total land area of 2.27 billion acres (9.2 million km2).[5][6] The majority of federal lands (610.1 million acres (2.469 million km2) or 95 percent area in 2015) are administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), National Park Service (NPS), or United States Forest Service (USFS). BLM, FWS, and NPS are part of the United States Department of the Interior, while the Forest Service is part of the United States Department of Agriculture. An additional 11.4 million acres (46 thousand km2) of land (about 2% of all federal land) is managed by the United States Department of Defense (DOD).[6] The majority of federal lands are located in Alaska and the Western states.[6]

  1. ^ https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=30-USC-1142904699-827877038&term_occur=999&term_src=title:30:chapter:25:subchapter:V:section:1272#:~:text=(4)%20%E2%80%9CFederal%20lands%E2%80%9D,of%20this%20chapter%20lands%20or
  2. ^ Paul Rodgers, United States Constitutional Law: An Introduction (2011), p. 100-101.
  3. ^ Gibson v. Chouteau, 80 U.S. 92, 99 (1872), U.S. v. Grimaud, 220 U.S. 506 (1911), Light v. U.S. 220 U.S. 523 (1911), Utah Power & Light Co. v. U.S., 243 U.S. 389, 405 (1917), Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 297 U.S. 288, 336 (1936).
  4. ^ Cornell University Law School, [1], Cornell University Legal Information Institute]
  5. ^ Lipton, Eric, and Clifford Krauss, Giving Reins to the States Over Drilling, New York Times, August 24, 2012.
  6. ^ a b c Carol Hardy Vincent, Carla N. Argueta, & Laura A. Hanson, Federal Land Ownership: Overview and Data, Congressional Research Service (updated February 21, 2020).

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