Land & Land Owners

I have always said that it is not plastics but LAND! It is all in the land.

Forbes Magazine, March 2011issue listed the top six private landowners in the United States. What do they know that we don’t? Nothing! It is all in the land.

John Malone 2.2 million acres

Ted Turner 2.1 million acres

Red Emmerson 1.72 million acres

Brad Kelley 1.7 million acres

Irving Family 1.2 million acres

Singleton Family 1.1 million acres

Did you know that each of the above listed private land owners own more land area than the area of Rhode Island?

The United States has a total land area of nearly 2.3 billion acres.

Major uses in 2002 were:

Forest-use land, 651 million acres (28.8 percent)

Grassland pasture and range land, 587 million acres (25.9 percent)

Cropland, 442 million acres (19.5 percent)

Special uses (primarily parks and wildlife areas), 297 million acres (13.1 percent)

Miscellaneous other uses, 228 million acres (10.1 percent)

Urban land, 60 million acres (2.6 percent)

Federal and State Governments own about 40% of the 2.3 billion acres and only 2.6% of the land is in urban use. I will try and update the statistics to show you the changes from 2002.