Here in the West, we are defined by our public lands: by the forests and deserts and steppes that comprise our backyards.
The US government owns 49% of the land in the 13 Western states, including Hawai’i and Alaska, according to Headwaters Economics, a non-profit research group based in Montana. (And that’s not counting all the land owned by the states, municipalities and the military.) In the remainder of the country, the feds own only 3.5%.
At the same time, the West is also experiencing a severe housing crisis: Seven of the 10 states with the greatest housing shortages are…
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1,117 land titles given to farmers in Cauayan City, Isabela
Vice President Sara Duterte (left) talks with Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella and Senator Imee Marcos (right) during the region-wide distribution of e-titles and CLOAs to farmer-beneficiaries at the FLDy Coliseum in Cauayan City on Wednesday, April 17. (Photo by Villamor Visaya Jr.)
CAUAYAN CITY — At least 1,117 electronic land titles and certificates of land ownership were given to 901 farmers in the Cagayan Valley region, while 80 farm machines and equipment worth P23.64 million were distributed to 3,105 agrarian reform beneficiaries in a region-wide mass distribution held here on Wednesday, April 17.
The land titles were given to…