Cohousing-L Mailing List: Public Lands and Communal Ownership (was Climate Change and fires)

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Sara Gottlieb <sara.gottlieb [at] gmail.com>
Public Lands and Communal Ownership (was Climate Change and fires)
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Just a reminder that land "owned by the federal government" is in fact
owned by all Americans.  This land is OUR land.  An important thing to
consider especially among a group of community-minded folks with interest
and experience in managing land and infrastructure in common.  As we all
know, communal ownership can lead to disagreements and mismanagement.  But
the alternative is profit-taking by private interests.

I highly recommend looking into the work of Elinor Ostrom (who was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009 and passed away in 2012) for deep
exploration of effective models for collective management of shared
resources.

Best,
Sara
Lake Claire CoHousing
Atlanta, GA, USA

> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 10:21:19 -0500
> From: Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
> To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Climate Change and fires
> Message-ID: <82BA15B0-0D38-4D2E-BF24-98FF8001D65A [at] sharonvillines.com>
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>> On Jan 25, 2025, at 1:48?PM, Kathryn McCamant <kmccamant@cohousing
-solutions.com> wrote:
>>
>> Almost all of the forestland in California is owned and managed by the
federal government, NOT the state of California.
>
> For people who have never lived in the West it is hard to fathom how much
land is still owned by the federal government. Much of the anti-government
sentiment there ? not just in California but including UT, CO, etc. is
caused by how the government manages or doesn?t manage the land.
>
> There are several maps on this page that show Federal Lands managed by 9
different Federal Agencies. By the color coding, some states are almost
entirely one color or another.
>
> https://gisgeography.com/federal-lands-united-states-map/
>
> That?s why we still hear news reports that sound like plots for cowboy
movies.
>
> Sharon
> ----
> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org