The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014)

Re:The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014) by ransom1538 on Sunday May 28, 2017 @07:09PM (#14436489)

If you can, take a ride on a smaller aircraft over California. The first thing I noticed was almost everything is uninhabited. US Forest Service manages 20 million acres of National Forest land in California. Another large portion is state park systems. California State Parks began the 1990s with over 260 park units, 280 miles of coastline, 625 miles of lake and river frontage, nearly 18,000 campsites, 3,000 miles of hiking, biking and equestrian trails, and 450 miles of off-highway vehicle trails on nearly 1.3 million acres. [ii]

https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=940

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Re:The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014) by brndnmtthws on Sunday May 28, 2017 @08:13PM (#14436697)

Let's hope it stays this way.

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Re:The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014) by maratd on Sunday May 28, 2017 @08:35PM (#14436759)

Why wouldn't it? Humans prefer living next to each other, creating dense clusters.

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Re:The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014) by brndnmtthws on Sunday May 28, 2017 @08:42PM (#14436785)

Well, for example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump...

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Re:The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014) by dublinclontarf on Sunday May 28, 2017 @08:53PM (#14436813)

The Trump EPA is going to force people to live in the badlands?

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Re:The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014) by closeparen on Sunday May 28, 2017 @11:57PM (#14437325)

The worry is that the land will transition from public recreation to business resource extraction uses.

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Re:The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014) by Sacho on Monday May 29, 2017 @01:43AM (#14437593)

Is the worry substantiated by anything in Trump's order?

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Re:The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014) by closeparen on Monday May 29, 2017 @02:28AM (#14437709)

>"Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that executive departments and agencies (agencies) immediately review existing regulations that potentially burden the development or use of domestically produced energy resources and appropriately suspend, revise, or rescind those that unduly burden the development of domestic energy resources beyond the degree necessary to protect the public interest or otherwise comply with the law."

Who knows to what degree these lands are considered "the public interest" vs. "undue burden" in the Secretary of the Interior's mind. But the rules regarding drilling on public land are specifically called out for review, indicating that the White House believes they are currently too strict.

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Re:The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014) by jimrandomh on Monday May 29, 2017 @01:21PM (#14440177)

That would be a very bad thing. California has a serious shortage of housing, and putting a few new cities in this unused land would go a long way towards bringing rents down to something reasonable.

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Re:The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014) by aerodeck on Monday May 29, 2017 @03:20PM (#14440895)

Perhaps doing something to control an overheated housing market would help more than tearing up new land 100 miles away from cities whose prosperity derives from the 'network effects' of geographical proximity.

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