#Federal Lands

[mapsontheweb]

Federal Land in Nevada

by u/Ben1152000

Nevada is 85% federally controlled, the most out of any state. Next on the list is Alaska, with only 69% federal land. This map shows the portion of federal land in Nevada, and the departments that manage it. Source Data is available here

[cherryblossomshadow]

Yeah, I also thought this post would end up talking about federal lands, a la CGP Grey's video:

Dune was a fun twist tho 😂

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Just because there's nothing Capitalistic there doesn't mean it's not beautiful. It doesn't mean the people there aren't worth knowing #agreeing with op #and add on #bc holy shit theyre right #okay so there arent any huge malls or amusement parks #okay??? #there are lakes #and mountains #yall montana is Gorgeous its one of the prettiest states ive ever visited #and the one state on my roadtrip i wasnt bored driving through #have yall ever looked up at a mountain at the base of a Valley #you find god #im going feral im beggin ppl to see the beauty and worth in the “flyover states” #if youve never looked at a sky Bursting with stars below the sky on a place untouched by light pollution then what are you doing (comment and tags courtesy of @radiantrakeem)

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'Nothing there' generally means we're ignoring the Indigenous people who still live in a place, and/or there were a lot more of them. Australians (I'm guilty of this) will say there's nothing in the desert when there are whole nations there. (comment courtesy of @v-as-in-victor)

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Hilarious, but also what people don't know about the Midwest and Western regions of the US is that prior to infrastructure development like dams, canals, water works, electricity, it was mostly very harsh and hardly habitable regions where only the Native people really knew how to properly make use of the resources out there. Early farms just out right failed or were barely scrapping by until the Government stepped in and subsidized improvements all over the place. So anytime some Republican talks about pulling yourself up by the bootstraps like their ancestors remember their ancestors would have died off without the Welfare of the federal government. (comment courtesy of @codex0fgigas)

always blows my mind as a european when people talk about states like “yeah theres nothing in ohio/montana/wyoming/etc” because i look at a map like but. but theyre so big. every state could qualify as its own country what do you mean theres nothing there. and then i ask people from those states and theyre like “yeah theres nothing here” what do you mean theres nothing there!!!

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Biden Administration Creates Final Limits for Oil Drillers in Alaska

The Biden administration announced new protections for 1.3 million acres in the North Slope of Alaska, a final effort to shield it from oil companies eager to drill in the ecologically sensitive Arctic environment. President-elect Donald J. Trump returns to the White House on Monday, and he has pledged to grant fossil fuel companies broad access to American land and federal waters. The new…

[the-final-sif]

There's a post from someone outside of the US about how people in the US don't put their country down and just put down their state and something about US people being US centric, and part of it has always kind of bothered me because I think that people outside of the US don't really understand how states work for us or why people think their state should be enough. Some of it is being US centric for sure, but I honestly don't think that's the main reason.

It's because the US is a bunch of countries in a trench coat. I've compared it before to the EU, and I really do think that's accurate. It's literally a union of states. Each state has it's own government and laws and we have the federal government too but day to day a lot more of your life comes down to the state laws. Your driver's license, license plate, wage and a lot of employment protect (and enforcement), vast majority of court experiences, etc all go through the state. Moving to different states can mean being subject to wildly different laws, tax rates/methods, and forms of discrimination (ie florida trying to ban queer people while other states are explicitly adding protections for them).

Like, you'll notice that streamers often tend to be clustered in certain states in the US, and a lot of that has to do with certain states not having an income tax. Depending on what state they're registered in, companies can be subject to wildly different laws. Hence why Delaware is so popular for businesses. Bankruptcy law works differently in every state.

Lawyers are licensed to practice by state, and while they can move to different states, it's difficult and depending on their area of law they may be totally out of their field. Even small states like Delaware have totally different laws from a place 15 minutes to the left like New Jersey.

The largest single state by population is California which has nearly 40 million people. That is more than the entire population of Canada. It's roughly on par with Poland. Give or take a million people.

Ohio has about 11 million people, about 1 million more than Sweden. Florida has 22 million, over double Greece's population. New York and Romania both come out to about 19 million each.

Our smallest state by population, Wyoming, which has about 500k people, still has about 200k more people than Iceland.

Fucking Russia literally does not have half the population of the US. It sits at 144 million while we're at 333 million.

To give a sense of landmass/scale, France is the largest EU state by landmass with 630k square km. Texas alone is 695k. Alaska is 1.7 million square km. The US in total is 11.3 million square km. The entire EU has 4.2 million square km.

The US is 1) fucking huge and 2) so much less cohesive than a lot of non-Americans assume.

So why would someone from the US just put down their state? For the same reason that most people from the EU don't write down "Germany in the EU". Your state is where you're actually from, the USA is the weird umbrella you live under.

[lostchildonaisle3]

cod ghosts if it was good (written by me)

[many-sparrows]

So much of my work rn is making me a direct audience to Palestinian Christians who are begging, pleading even, for our help. Christians, you do not get to look away from this. They are incredibly clear about what they need: ceasefire, prayers, protection. Do not look away, do not look away, do not look away.

[bitcell]

i just think it's fair that the guy who flirts with the other side and has an obsession with occultism gets an ancient entity attached to him, and said entity, decides to follow him around and watch his every move, AND not only that, but also gets so intrigued with this mortal that he starts to lurk into his mind and use his powers to annoy him

and it would be very interesting if the husband of the mortal came from the same lineage of the ancient entity

[communistkenobi]

it appears 3x02 is a settler colonialism episode

[psycho-scribbler]

so i started writing psych evals for some of my characters and um. sir this is the funniest shit ever

[mapsontheweb]

The first step to understanding U.S. federal lands is knowing the players. Ninety-five percent of natural spaces open to the public are managed by four agencies—NPS, FWS, FS and BLM.

This article explains the differences—and what that means for travelers.

by @NatGeoMaps

[darkwood-sleddog]

Thank you for bringing up the CDC changes. I had no idea. I’m on the southern border and drive across to Mexico for errands, family, travel … I cross around 10x per year. Sometimes I bring my dogs. I also have transported rescue animals to vets across the border. We bring rabies vaccine proof but documentation is never requested by border authorities. One time when I had puppies they just asked how many puppies, I guess 3 was okay. To go from that to these new policies is very surprising, even hard to believe. I can’t imagine they were thinking of our border culture when they made these decisions. It’s a privilege to travel freely and benefit from the exchange rate in MX. I’m concerned how this all plays out and what it means for us. I’ll try calling the representatives and doing the petition, thanks for that.

It's absolutely my pleasure to talk about these things and I'm glad you found my posts beneficial in some way. There has been ZERO consideration for the cross border culture that is established at both of the United State's shared borders and especially zero consideration for the Canadians and Mexicans that cross into the United States on a frequent and legal basis to spend money in our economy etc. AND the people living in enclave communities that have to cross just to go to work, groceries, etc. I know people that live in the United States and have vets in Canada, which they now cannot bring their puppies to. Sometimes this is the closest vet to some rural communities.

I have the exact same experience you have in that border patrol has not once, not ever asked to look at my extensive paperwork. I keep a three ring binder for each dog with their entire medical history and they constantly tell me that it is unneeded. When I did the containment agreement with Sigurd as a puppy I was so nervous that I didn't have all my paperwork in order (I did) and that they wouldn't let me cross with him. They didn't even look at my CDC issued containment agreement paperwork, didn't even make issue with the fact it was a puppy too young for a rabies vaccine. It seems silly to think they wouldn't try actually educating and requiring border control to ask for these things and be a bit more strict with what's coming in before moving to such an extreme as we see now.

From what I saw from the draft of the "why we did this" that went around the reasoning they say they are making these rules blanketed across all countries with no nuance is to "streamline" things. To me it is flat out lazy to do this, reads as they don't feel like training border control on how to work with any sort of nuance in regards to CDC regulations. It's ridiculous. It also reads like they don't want to actual try and curb retail rescues falsifying paperwork and bringing in diseased dogs beyond these sort of over arching regulations. There's a lot that can be done, but doing what they've done is not the way. The rescues falsifying paperwork will still do so unless true action and consequences are given.

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Biden to Designate Two New National Monuments in California

President Biden on Tuesday plans to create two national monuments in California that together will prevent mining and drilling as well as wind, solar and other energy development across more than 848,000 acres of desert and mountainous land in the state, a White House spokesman has confirmed. The Chuckwalla National Monument will encompass about 644,000 acres south of Joshua Tree National Park…

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Brazil's top court says X paid pending fines to wrong bank

Brazil's Supreme Court said on Friday that lawyers representing social media platform X did not pay pending fines to the proper bank, postponing its decision on whether to allow the tech firm to resume services in Brazil.

The payment of the fines, which X lawyers argued that the company had paid correctly, is the only outstanding measure demanded by the court in order to authorize X to operate again in Brazil.

X has been suspended since late August in Brazil, one of its largest and most coveted markets, after not complying with court orders related to hate speech moderation and failing to name a legal representative in the country, as required by law.

Earlier on Friday, X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, filed a fresh request to have its services restored in Brazil, saying it had paid all pending fines.

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[hojichasunrise]

This new job that I thought was finally going to solve my problems turned out to be so dysfunctional and toxic I have to engage in legal action against them... 😮‍💨 Quick sketch. Vibing to Crywolf.