A Third of America Belongs to America

Why HN readers recommended it

Offered as the quick, clear explainer on US federal land ownership whenever land use in the West comes up.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

CGP Grey

Topic

us federal land

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Yeah CGP Grey had a god video about federal land ownership the majorty of land in western states is federal land. [VIDEO] Its kind of ridiculous. how little control states have over the land within their own boarders.

• You might enjoy CGP Grey's "What is federal land?" [0]. Making resources available to American industry is one of the government's purposes in owning it. There are certainly disagreements over how well that's balanced against other goals, or against the long term future. But it's …

• CGP Grey did an interesting video on the differences between the agencies that own federal land in the US: [VIDEO] (Start from the beginning for more context)