01-14-2014, 09:24 AM
"Federal land ownership is concentrated in the West. Specifically, 62% of Alaska is federally owned, as is 47% of the 11 coterminous western states. By contrast, the federal government owns only 4% of lands in the other states. This western concentration has contributed to a higher degree of controversy over land ownership and use in that part of the country"
Hawaii 833,786 4,105,600 20.3%
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42346.pdf
I would not call 1/5th of the state insignificant in light of the claim made by congress, tu?