Public vs Private Lands

I was recently paging through the Atlas of the New West, an interesting book published by The Center of the American West.  It’s an older book, published in 1997, yet it still has a great deal of relevant information regarding current issues affecting life in the Rocky Mountains.

This particular illustration caught my eye – a graphical representation of the percent of public lands in each state.  While I’ve always known that the Rocky Mountain states have vastly more public lands than their eastern counterparts, I’ve never seen it laid out in this particular manner.  Muy interesante!

source: Atlas of the New West, page 58.