A Few Thousand Acres to Hunt and Train

All of England represents 60 million acres, of which 42 million acres are agricultural.

Here in the US we have about that many acres just in Pittman-Robertson land dedicated to hunting, including about 4,000 acres that I sometimes access, and where this picture was taken.

Pittman-Robertson land is typically field and hedge with small forest belts, with some crops planted for wildlife (millet, sunflowers, sorghum) and some in cash crops (corn, soy, peanut).

In addition, the US has well over 180 million acres of National Forest land which can be hunted (three Englands in size), and 258 million acres of Bureau of Land Management acres (over 4 Englands in size) which can be hunted. And let us not forget the Conservation Reserve Program land, which can be hunted, and is another 24 million acres (down from 40 million acres a decade or so back).

Added to all this are many state parks and wildlife management areas which can be hunted, some military bases which can be hunted, some wildlife refuges which can be hunted, some Indian reservations which can be hunted (with special permits from the tribes), and of course scores of millions of private farms and lands.