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  2. List of federal lands in Washington - Wikipedia

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    The three National Recreation Areas within the state of Washington are: Lake Chelan National Recreation Area near Chelan; Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area near Spokane; Ross Lake National Recreation Area near Newhalem

  3. List of areas in the United States National Park System

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    National reserves are partnerships between federal, state, and local authorities. Within the boundaries of the three national reserves are combinations of federal land (Park Service or National Wildlife Refuges), state parks and forests, local public lands, and private properties. Two national reserves are currently managed as official units.

  4. List of wilderness areas of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The National Wilderness Preservation System includes 806 wilderness areas protecting 111,889,002 acres (174,826.566 sq mi; 452,798.73 km 2) of federal land as of 2023. They are managed by four agencies: National Park Service (NPS) United States Forest Service (USFS) United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

  5. National recreation area - Wikipedia

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    As the primary focus of land management is recreation (rather than conservation), limited land use such as grazing, logging, and mineral leasing is permitted only if it does not interfere with the recreational use of the land. [8] The establishing legislation of each NRA usually specifies multiple purposes of the designation. [22]

  6. Public lands in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, [8] or a beneficiary under the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994. [9]

  7. Federal lands - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Protected areas of the United States - Wikipedia

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    These lands had a total area of 210,000 sq mi (540,000 km 2). [citation needed] Because U.S. federal protected areas include both ownership based names, and names related to overlaying policy designations, the naming system for U.S. protected areas results in some types being used by more than one agency.

  9. Category : National recreation areas of the United States

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    National Recreation Areas of the United States — managed by the United States Forest Service For U.S. National Park Service managed National Recreation Areas, see Category: National Park Service National Recreation Areas .