Cover Page

Contents

Preface
Letter

SECTION I

Orientation
Summary

SECTION II

History
Needs
Geography
Historic Sites
Competitors
Economic Aspects

SECTION III

Federal Lands
State and Interstate
Local

SECTION IV

Division of Responsibility
Local
State
Federal
Circulation

SECTION V

Educational Opportunities

Federal Lands in Territories and Insular Possessions

The total area of Alaska is 378,165,760 acres.³³ Of this area about 30 million acres are reserved as national forests, national parks, and national monuments. The amount of patented land is small. The unreserved and unappropriated public domain comprises 346,174,242 acres, or about nine-tenths of the total area of Alaska.

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³³ General Land Office, Vacant Lands on July 1, 1933, Circular No. 13011.

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The total area of the Hawaiian Islands is 4,127,360 acres. There is no public domain in the islands. There are, however, territorial lands, comprising 1,588,550 acres, or more than one-third of the total area of the islands. These are administered by the Commissioner of Lands of the Territory.

The Hawaii National Park, on the islands of Hawaii and Maui, has an area of 156,800 acres. There are also naval and military reservations.

The Hawaiian Islands offer a variety of opportunities for outdoor recreation, throughout the entire year, including swimming, tennis, hiking, horseback riding, the hunting of boar, goat, and sheep, and organized athletics, such as baseball and football.

Other insular possessions include Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Samoan Islands, and Guam. There is a national forest in Puerto Rico, as well as military and naval reservations in most of these insular possessions, but there is little or no public domain available for general recreational use.

All of these territorial areas offer some forms of recreational use to the local residents, and most of them offer the opportunities of pleasure travel to the people of the continental United States.

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