Bid to Preserve Manhattan Project Sites in a Park Stirs Debate

NY Times ^ | December 3, 2012 | WILLIAM J. BROAD

[neverdem]

A plan now before Congress would create a national park spread over three states to protect the aging remnants of the atomic bomb project from World War II, including an isolated cabin where grim findings threw the secretive effort into a panic.

[AdmSmith]

The Federal Government own nearly 650 million acres of land — almost 30 percent of the land area of the United States.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588789,00.html

Maybe some of that land can be sold to pay part of the budget deficit?

[AdmSmith]

More here: Question; Whats the approximate value of land owned by US government? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2577202/posts

[GraceG]

The Federal Government own nearly 650 million acres of land — almost 30 percent of the land area of the United States.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588789,00.html

Maybe some of that land can be sold to pay part of the budget deficit?

Yeah they will sell it to the chinese...