Federal Lands: Information on Land Owned and on Acreage with Conservation
Restrictions (Testimony, 03/02/95, GAO/T-RCED-95-117).

During fiscal years 1964-93, the amount of federal land managed by the
Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Wildlife
Service, and the National Park Service decreased by 77 million acres,
from about 700 million acres to about 623 million acres.  However, the
decrease is skewed because of two unique land transfers in Alaska--the
transfer of about 76 million acres of federal land to the state of
Alaska in accordance with the Alaska Statehood Act of 1958 and the
transfer of about 36 million acres to native Alaskans in accordance with
the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. Excluding these two
large land transfers, the amount of land managed by the four agencies
actually increased by 34 million acres.  During the same 29-year period,
the number of acres managed by the four agencies that were set aside for
conservation purposes increased from about 51 million acres at the end
of fiscal year 1964 to about 271 million acres at the end of fiscal year
1993.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-RCED-95-117
     TITLE:  Federal Lands: Information on Land Owned and on Acreage 
             with Conservation Restrictions
      DATE:  03/02/95
   SUBJECT:  Land management
             Public lands
             National forests
             National parks
             Wilderness areas
             Wildlife conservation
             Forest conservation
             Land transfers
             Real property acquisition
IDENTIFIER:  Alaska
             Mojave National Preserve (CA)
             Death Valley National Park (CA)
             Joshua Tree National Park (CA)
             California
             Iowa
             Nevada
             Utah
             Idaho
             Oregon
             New Mexico
             
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