-sounds about right to me. But the federal government currently lays claim to over 80% of the land in Nevada. That doesn't leave much arable land left to the "people". By the way, when do we "the people" get to use the 5 million dollar helicopters? Would be nice to take a scenic flight sometime over the area. Heck, I'd settle for a drive in a $50,000 "the people owned" SUV.
All of that land was available to homestead for over a hundred years. There's a reason no one ever claimed it. The "arable" land--by definition what's farmable--is what they did take, leaving the scrub and desert and marginal grazing lands to the feds, who acquired it all from Mexico via war.