[QUOTE=Miguel]
In Texas, I think it’s the opposite where the state owns most of the public land than the federal government.
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Correct, one of the conditions under which the Republic of Texas allowed itself to be annexed was that as a state it would keep the “public domain” land it held as a republic. The federal government owns only the dribs and drabs that it acquired afterward for specific purposes–national parks, military bases, and the like.