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CIRCULAR 6 3 6, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Table 4. — Estimated acreage on ichicli it is considered economically feasible to 

 improve food and cover for wildlife, by classes of land, 1935 — Coutinued 





Ownership 



Total 

 area 



Percent- 

 age 

 econom- 



ically 

 feasible 



to im- 

 prove for 

 food and 



cover i 



Economically feasible to 

 improve for food and 

 cover 



Class of land 



Area 2 



Per- 

 cent- 

 age of 

 all 

 food 

 and 

 cover 2 



Per- 

 cent- 

 age of 

 total 

 land 

 area 

 of the 

 United 

 States 



Xonagricultural land: 

 Special uses 



f25% public 



1,000 acres 



Percent 



1,000 acres 



Percent 



Percent 



\75% private 



Public 



« 9. 840 



' 17. 787 



« 4. 055 



' 3, 810 



s 12, 919 



' 51, 400 



» 1, 502 



i°389 



20 



75 

 75 

 80 

 80 



75 

 80 

 50 



1.968 

 13. 340 

 3.041 

 3.048 

 10. 335 



38. 550 



1.202 



194 



.2 

 1.0 

 .2 

 .2 

 .8 



3.0 

 .1 



('!) 





Highways . __ 



. 1 



Railroad rights-of-way 



Private 



Public 



do 



do 



do 



do 



9 



National parks and monu- 

 ments 



Indian reservations 



Army reservations 



Navy reservations 



.5 



2.0 

 .1 



1 ) 



Total 



101. 702 



70 



71, 678 



5. 5 



3.8 





Public 



Private 







Forest and woodland not grazed. 

 Do 



12 36. 799 70 I 25. 759 

 12 116. 573 i 90 104. 915 



2.0 



8.0 



1.3 







Total 



153.372 85 130.674 



10.0 



6.8 





Public.-- 





Other nonagricultural land.. 



1 3 55.466 20 i 11.093 



.8 



.6 



Do 





» 1, 397 



15 



(») 











Total . 



56, 863 



20 



11, 303 



.8 



.fi 









All nonagricultural land . 



311.937 



68 



213. 655 



16.3 11.2 









Total land area of the 

 United States 



1.903.217 



68 



1, 303. 646 



100.0 68.5 



All private-owned land (74.9% of 



1. 424. 720 

 478, 497 



66 

 77 



933,264 71.6 49.0 



United States) 

 All public-owned land (25.1% of 

 United States) 





370. 382 



28.4 



19.5 







6 Data from unpublished reports by O. E. Baker, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



7 Data from the National Resources Board's Recreational Uses of Land in the United 

 States, prepared by the National Park Service. Part XI of the Supplementary Report of 

 the Land Planning Committee, p. 122. 



8 Data from publications of the U. S. Department of the Interior. 



9 Data from U. S. War Department Statistical Report. July 1937. 



10 Data from U. S. Navy Department. Federal-owned Real Estate Under Control of the 

 Navy Department. 



11 Less than 0.05 percent. 



v2 Obtained by subtracting grazed forest and woodland not in farms from the total forest 

 and woodland not in farms in the United States as given by the National Resources Board 

 Report. Part VIII of the Supplementary Report of the Land Planning Committee, p. 78. 

 Some of it is wildlife refuges. 



13 Obtained by subtracting grazed nonforest or woodland not in farms from the total 

 nonforest or woodland not in farms in the United States as given by various Government 

 reports. Some of it is wildlife refuges. 



Evidence indicates that about TO percent of the game reported 

 killed was taken on agricultural land and about 30 percent on non- 

 agricultural land. This does not take into account game taken by 

 farmers and farm boys hunting on their own or rented agricultural 

 lands nor does it consider that no Corn Belt. Wheat Belt, or Range 

 State is represented in the data on hand. It is believed, therefore. 

 that if a representative sample of the total bag of game were avail- 

 able, it would indicate that more than 80 percent of the game taken 

 during recent years was killed on agricultural land. However, in 



