3 ms·
> Among the nation’s top landowners are Mr. Malone, with 2.2 million acres in New Mexico, Colorado and other states; To give a sense of perspective, 2.2 millio
by deogeo 7y ago
> Among the nation’s top landowners are Mr. Malone, with 2.2 million acres in New Mexico, Colorado and other states;
To give a sense of perspective, 2.2 million acres is a 94 km by 94 km square (or 59 by 59 miles). Approximately equivalent to a single person owning all of Cyprus or Puerto Rico.
Add two more people from that paragraph, and between the three of them, they own more land than all of Israel.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoLocation, location, location!
- bradleyjg 7y agoAs a point of comparison in the other direction, the federal government owns 34.5 million acres in Idaho alone.
- codyb 7y agoIsn’t the federal government at the very least supposed to embody the will of it’s people? I’ve no problem with my nation owning a lot of the land within its borders. You certainly didn’t make any particular point on the subject but I’d rather we own than one person owns.
- bradleyjg 7y agoMy point wasn’t so much about whether it’s right or wrong for private landowners to own that much land. It’s that the western continental US is really big (and empty) as compared to Cyprus or Israel.
- codyb 7y agoYea, well that’s absolutely a fact I feel acutely whenever I have to cross the darned thing for work!