claim: "the federal government owns about half of the west, yet it continues to acquire more land."
author: jeb bush
evidence_1: jan 5, 2016 ... how did the federal government get the land? ... but in the 11 states in the west ( including new mexico, colorado, wyoming and montana, and ...
evidence_2: jan 11, 2016 ... and when the federal government designates land for new national ... been more  ambivalent about federal ownership of western land than current rhetoric might  suggest. ... most of the west's lands were originally acquired by the national ...  but in the 1890s congress started keeping forest lands in federal ...
evidence_3: mar 3, 2017 ... the federal government owns roughly 640 million acres, about 28% of the 2.27  billion acres of ... lands. congress has provided varying land acquisition and  disposal ..... most of these lands are in the west, including alaska. .... peaked in  1910 at 18.3 million acres but dropped below 200,000 acres annually ...
evidence_4: jan 8, 2016 ... government owned and subsidized lands in the american west ... why is it that  so much land is controlled by the federal government ... the troubles initially  began with the louisiana purchase which established the federal government ...  continued to cling to the idea that land ownership should still consist ...
evidence_5: jul 23, 2010 ... the rough beauty of the american west seems as far as you can get from ... the  federal government owns large tracts of the western states: from a low of ... that  sounds like a lot, but since it is an average, and because we have ... its huge  percentage of federal lands, alaska alone represents almost half the ...