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jacobolus on April 21, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Po...

In the western US, most land is owned by the federal government, which on the whole does a pretty decent job of forest management.

Why should large landholdings beyond individuals’ management abilities be left to particular families?

petre on April 21, 2019 [–]

Maybe that's why English settlers went to the US in the first place. The UK did not have a French style revolution.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/land-reform/Types-of-reform

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