Editing National forest (United States) (section)

==Geography==
The United States national forest comprises about 132 million acres.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Houck |first=Oliver A. |date=2022 |title=This Land Is Your Land: The Dark Canon of the United States Supreme Court in Natural Resources Law |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27108388 |journal=Natural Resources Journal |volume=62 |issue=1 |pages=1–48 |jstor=27108388 |issn=0028-0739}}</ref> There are 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands containing 193&nbsp;million acres (297,000&nbsp;mi<sup>2</sup>/769&nbsp;000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) of land.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=By the Numbers {{!}} US Forest Service|url=https://www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/newsroom/by-the-numbers|access-date=2020-10-16|website=www.fs.usda.gov|date=February 2016|archive-date=2020-10-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015171301/https://www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/newsroom/by-the-numbers|url-status=live}}</ref> These lands comprise 8.5 percent of the total land area of the United States, an area about the size of [[Texas]].<ref name=":1" /> About 87 percent of national forest land lies in the [[Western United States]], mostly in mountain ranges. [[Alaska]] has 12 percent of all national forest lands.<ref name=":2" />

Within the national forest system, there are 1,200 sites listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] and 23 are [[National Historic Landmarks]].<ref name=":1" /> The [[National Historic Preservation Act]] requires the Forest Service to identify, investigate, and protect cultural resources on lands it manages.<ref name=":1" />

The U.S. Forest Service also manages all of the [[United States National Grassland|United States national grasslands]] and nearly 50% of the [[National Recreation Area|United States national recreation area]]s.