Threat of Axis Deer on the Big Island

[Midnight Rambler]

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Originally posted by Bullwinkle

"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%

I would not call 1/5th of the state insignificant in light of the claim made by congress, tu?

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Nearly all of that land is in the National Parks, PTA, and the Oahu military bases (and judging from the map in your link, they may be including the water area of Hawaii Volcanoes, because the land area shown is considerably less than 20%). The amount of Federal land leased for ranching is approximately zero. Nearly all the big operations - Parker, Shipman, Yee Hop, Umikoa, Kealakekua, Palani, and the smaller Kohala ranches on the Big Island, and Ulupalakua and Haleakala Ranch on Maui - own most of their land outright. The descendants of the Greenwell and McCandless ranches lease some or all of their lands from the state or KS. Puu Waawaa is no longer a cattle ranch, though there is a short-term lease on part of the area to keep the fire danger down. Some other pieces of state land are still leased, especially in Mauna Kea and leeward Maui. Much of those are actually DHHL lands.