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Federal Land Management: Federal Land Acquisitions in California Since January 1994

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Aug. 30, 2000
Report No. RCED-00-239
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Summary:

The federal government owns about 45 million acres in California that include, among other areas, wildlife refuges and military installations. This comprises about 45 percent of the state's total land area. About 90 percent of this federal land was established in the public domain in 1848 when Mexico ceded the area that became California. Some of the remaining federal land acquisitions were made as part of a joint federal-state program--called CALFED--that was created in 1995 to protect the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. CALFED's mission is to develop a plan to restore the ecological health of and improve water management in the Bay-Delta area, which supplies drinking water for more than 22 million Californians and irrigation for state agriculture. This report identifies: (1) lands acquired by federal and nonfederal entities with federal funds through CALFED since it began in 1995; and (2) lands acquired outside the CALFED program by federal programs.

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