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<br /> <br />The Land <br /> <br />Resources <br /> <br />of Colorado <br /> <br />About 36 percent of the 103,884 square miles <br />of land area in Colorado is owned by the Federal <br />Government. Such land includes public lands <br />or remnants of the old public domain which <br />have always been in Federal ownership and lands <br />purchased by the Federal Government. <br />Federal lands in Colorado are administered <br />princi pall y by the following Federal agencies: <br />Bureau of Land Management, Geological Sur- <br />vey, Bureau of Reclamation, National Park <br /> <br />32 <br /> <br />I <br />1 <br />I <br />1 <br />., <br />! <br /> <br />1 <br />j <br />., <br />;'1 <br />1 <br /> <br />'1 <br />'''.1 <br />.;1 <br />! <br /> <br /> <br />Service-All Interior Department bureau: <br />Forest Service of the Department of Agricl <br />the Atomic Energy Commission; ane <br />Department of Defense. <br />Public lands are used for a variety of pu <br />including grazing, timber production, w <br />habitat, recreation, production of mil <br />and parks and forests. <br />Areas of public land are withdrawn fror <br />to time for surveys, mineral leasing, <br />