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Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a powerful government agency within the US Department of the Interior, administers 264 million acres of America's public lands, primarily in the western US states. For those interested in what, exactly, the BLM does in order "to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations," this...

https://www.blm.gov/
Bureau of Land Management: Public Land Statistics

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages over 264 million acres of public land, most of which is located in the western United States. The BLM works diligently to get information on these lands out to a variety of stakeholders, including other government agencies, private landowners, and other organizations. This website brings together the BLM's formal land statistics and reports. Visitors can...

https://www.blm.gov/about/data/public-land-statistics
National Public Lands Day

Celebrate National Public Lands Day on September 26 with this blast from the past (last featured in the 01-21-2011 Scout Report). The official website for the celebration includes several unique tools, including a NPLD Event Locator and educator toolkits. Sponsored by the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF), National Public Lands Day (NPLD) was started in 1994 with three federal...

https://www.neefusa.org/what-we-do/conservation/national-pub...
Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records: Original Field Notes

The area that now constitutes the state of Wisconsin was first surveyed by the federal government between the years 1833 and 1866. This survey was performed (as it was across the United States) to divide the public domain into salable-sized lots that could be sold or given away to both encourage settlement through this territory and raise monies for the federal government. While surveyors divided...

https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SurveyNotes/