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In 1971, barely one million acres of land in Alaska were in private hands. [33] ANCSA, together with section 6 of Alaska Statehood Act, which the new act allowed to come to fruition, affected ownership to about 148.5 million acres (601,000 km 2) of land in Alaska once wholly controlled by the federal government. [33]
134.94 acres (0.5461 km 2) Inupiat Heritage Center (affiliated area) Other NPS protected areas and administrative group 0.00 acres (0 km 2) Fort Egbert: U.S. Army base Iditarod Trail: Bureau of Land Management area National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska: Bureau of Land Management area Steese National Conservation Area: Bureau of Land Management area
Between 1862 and 1934, the federal government granted 1.6 million homesteads and distributed 270,000,000 acres (420,000 sq mi) of federal land for private ownership. This was a total of 10% of all land in the United States. [5] Homesteading was discontinued in 1976, except in Alaska, where it continued until 1986.
The steps by the Interior Department are aligned with President Joe Biden's goal to conserve 30% of U.S. lands and waters as part of his climate change agenda. In a statement, Interior said it had ...
As of March 2007, about 9.8 million acres (15,000 sq mi; 40,000 km 2) have been conveyed, including 6.6 million acres (10,000 sq mi; 27,000 km 2) in surface and subsurface estate (fee Owned) and 3.2 million acres (5,000 sq mi; 13,000 km 2) of subsurface estate corresponding to surface estate owned by villages corporations in the Doyon region.
Over the 1990–2018 time period, the largest decline in federal acreage was in Alaska (a decrease of 9.4%, or 23.0 million acres (0.093 million km 2)) and in the 11 contiguous states of the West (a 3% decrease in federal land, or 10.7 million acres (0.043 million km 2)). [6]