Federal Land Management: Federal Land Acquisitions in California since January1994

摘要

In California, the federal government owns about 45 million acres of nationalforests, national parks, wildlife refuges, military installations, and other public lands about 45 percent of the states total land area. Agencies acquire nonfederal land through various meanssuch as purchase, exchange, and donationand for a variety of purposes, including restoring ecosystems and protecting wildlife habitat. You asked us to report information on land acquired by federal agencies from January 1994 through April 2000 in California for such purposes as restoring ecosystems and protecting wildlife habitat. Specifically, you asked us to identify (1) lands acquired through the CALFED program since its inception in 1995 by federal agencies or by nonfederal entities using federal funds and (2) lands acquired outside the CALFED program by federal agencies. CALFED is a consortium of state and federal agencies with management and regulatory responsibilities in the Bay-Delta area in California.