what is the history of sales of us national forest land  ?
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Dave Alberswerth, a Wilderness Society senior policy adviser, said that would be "way more than they have been selling in recent years." From 2000 to 2004, the bureau sold 13,160 acres for an average price of $320 an acre, he said. At that rate, the government would have to sell more than half a million acres to garner $182 million.
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Volontiers sold them during WW I (or II?) in the US. the revenue helped financed the war effort.
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The United States purchased the Alaskan territory from Russia in 1867 - the leading proponent of the plan was Secretary of State William Seward. The US paid what was then $7.2 million for the land - in today's dollars, that would be equivalent to a purchase price of $1.67 billion.\n\nMany mocked the purchase, wondering what the US would do with a barren, mostly frozen territory. The purchase was known as Seward's Folly and President Johnson's Icebox.\n\nThe joke was on the critics - gold was discovered in the Alaskan territory shortly after it was first found in the Klondike region of Canada in 1896.\n\nModern day Alaskans celebrate Seward's Day on the last Monday in March - a celebration of the man who inspired the purchase of the land that would one day become the 49th U.S. state
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The Interior Department is in charge of all federally owned land. As of mid-2004, the Department managed 507 million acres (2,050,000 km²) of surface land, or about one-fifth of the land in the United States. It manages 476 dams and 348 reservoirs through the Bureau of Reclamation, 388 national parks, monuments, seashore sites, battlefields, etc. through the National Park Service, and 544 national wildlife refuges through the Fish and Wildlife Service. Energy projects on federally managed lands and offshore areas supply about 28 percent of the nation's energy production. It is also in charge of Indian relations.
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This site provides a list of US territories and Outlying Areas and their histories, as well as when they were acquired by the US. Click the name of the territory / outlying area you want to know about\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108295.html
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check out homes and land magazine or on the web.\nThere you can find out the info you are looking for
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In the 1950s, Richard J. Reynolds, Jr. began offering blacks who owned land on the barrier island of Sapelo in Georgia the "opportunity" to swap the prime land for less desirable land of a smaller size.  At least a dozen black families made the swap, despite coming up on the short end of the deal.\n\nSome of the families are recorded as having recieved other compensation such as lumber for building a new home but there are reports that the extra compensations did not come through.  There were also some veiled threats made as to the black landowners continuing employment for Mr. Reynolds who was the primary employer in the area.  Mr. Reynolds also owned most of the other infrastructure on the island and was a close friend of the county sherriff.\n\nAt least one of the black landowners claims that land that is under control of the Sapelo Foundation, a philanthropic organization set up by Richard J. Reynolds Jr., is still his.  County records show no evidence of a sale by the Walker family and Ernest Walker is still paying property tax on the land.
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private land purchases by a non profit group.
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There certainly is much land for sale in Colorado. I have found property in the San Luis Valley to sell for little. It is also about eight hours away from a Denver (a big city). Lots of the land is off the grid; no power, sewer, water, phone. This land may or may not be a good price.\nPrices vary from 4,000 to 35,000 per acre or more the closer to Denver.
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All of them.\n\nLiving in a "National Forest" is no big deal at all.  In fact, huge amounts of most forests are in private hands.  Simply find some land that rests inside of the forest and buy it.\n\nNational parks are a bit different.  But yes, most of them have at least some of the land in private hands.\n\nMost also have cabins and campgrounds that you can stay in.  If you have the money, you can simply rent a cabin in one of them forever.
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Why is it callled a yard sale? your not selling the yard....who knows...its america
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Last year, there was a proposal to sell off some of the National Parks to pay for hurricane relief and to help pay for some of the national debt.  I'm sure that one day there will be a group of like minded people in government who will approve of this measure. Save your pennies, one day you might have an opportunity to be the proud owner of a former national park.  \nThe following is copied from the link below:\n________________________________\nNational parks for sale? \nA proposal by House Resources Chairman Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, would sell 15 national parks to raise money for the government. Pombo insists the draft bill was aimed at convincing lawmakers to raise the revenue instead by drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Among the National Park Service sites suggested for sale: \n\n-- Eugene O'Neill National Historical Site, Danville \n\n-- Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, Texas \n\n-- Fort Bowie National Historical Site, Arizona \n\n-- Frederick Law Olmsted National Historical Site, Massachusetts \n\n-- Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, District of Columbia \n\n-- Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, South Dakota \n\n-- Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, Pennsylvania \n\n-- Thomas Stone National Historical Site, Maryland \n\n-- Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Alaska \n\n-- Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska \n\n-- Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Alaska \n\n-- Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska \n\n-- Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska \n\n-- Noatak National Preserve, Alaska \n\n-- Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska
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The total acreage of national parks in the US is:\n51,736,474.23 acres. That is a fairly small fraction of the total acreage of the United States.\n\nApproximately 27 percent of the United States is federal land, but much of that is national forests.
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Alaska was 'bought' by the US, from Russia, I guess for less than $7.2 million.And that was way back in 1867 !!\n\nI guess the http links pasted here are not working....try out Yahoo search or Google
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The U.S. Census has your answers!\n\nThe closest information you can find is in the 2006 Statistical Abstract of the United States:\nhttp://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/06statab/foreign.pdf\n\nCheck tables 1276 and 1281 for current foreign investments and holdings in the U.S.
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Here ya go!\n\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/funddocs/billeng.htm\n\nMake them into flash cards on index cards and go from there.
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"NAKED HIKING ON NATIONAL FOREST LAND"\nhttp://www.theplacewithnoname.com/hiking/sections/naked/nationalforest.htm\n\n"Frequently I hear naturists make the claim, 'There is no law regarding simple nudity on Federal (National Forest Service (NFS)) land.' While that may be true on some NFS land, it isn't true on all Federal land. Also, just because there isn't a Federal law governing an activity, that does NOT mean that the activity is actually legal.\n...\nThis is based entirely within the NFS rules. Section 261.58: Occupancy and use. 'When provided by an order, the following are prohibited:' - and Being publicly nude is one of the prohibited activities. \n\nWhat does 'Being publicly nude' mean? \n\n36 CFR 261.2 Definitions \n\nPublicly nude means nude in any place where a person may be observed by another person. Any person is nude if ..."\n\n"Laws about Nudism"\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/nudism1.htm\n\n"Federal law: No federal US federal law that either allows or prohibits nudity. The courts have not ruled whether the right to engage in naturism is guaranteed by the Constitution under its freedom of expression provision. Thus, the legality of various forms of undress is currently left up to the individual states and localities to decide. Nudity is generally allowed in some areas of some national parks, unless local laws have overriding jurisdiction."