As a point of comparison in the other direction, the federal government owns 34.5 million acres in Idaho alone.
Isn’t the federal government at the very least supposed to embody the will of it’s people?
I’ve no problem with my nation owning a lot of the land within its borders.
You certainly didn’t make any particular point on the subject but I’d rather we own than one person owns.
My point wasn’t so much about whether it’s right or wrong for private landowners to own that much land. It’s that the western continental US is really big (and empty) as compared to Cyprus or Israel.
Yea, well that’s absolutely a fact I feel acutely whenever I have to cross the darned thing for work!
Re:Who gets to own the West?
by Mountain_Skies on Saturday June 22, 2019 @08:48AM
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Location, location, location!
To give a sense of perspective, 2.2 million acres is a 94 km by 94 km square (or 59 by 59 miles). Approximately equivalent to a single person owning all of Cyprus or Puerto Rico.
Add two more people from that paragraph, and between the three of them, they own more land than all of Israel.