<P> Federal land is concentrated in Alaska and the Western United States . Nationwide , the federal government owns 27.4 % of all land area . There are significant variations regionally ; the federal government owns 61.3 % of the land area in Alaska , 46.4 % of the land area in the 11 contiguous Western states ; and 4.2 % of the land area of other stares . The state with the highest percentage of land held by the federal government is Nevada ( 79.6 % ) ; the states with the lowest percentage of land held by the federal government are Connecticut and Iowa ( 0.3 % ) . </P>
government ownership of property and resources in the united states is
concentrated in Alaska and the Western United States