> I'd like to see the same map but excluding national parks/public spaces. This is a major aspect, I think. A lot of land in the west is federally owned. This

> I'd like to see the same map but excluding national parks/public spaces. This is a major aspect, I think. A lot of land in the west is federally owned. This NY Times article[0] states that 47% of the land in the western US is owned by the Federal Government. It doesn't look like there's 1-1 overlap between the empty census blocks and the federal land ownership, though. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/upshot/why-the-government-owns-so-much-land-in-the-west.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/upshot/why-the-government...