private lands

Owned real estate

Private lands are areas owned by individuals, corporations, or non-governmental organizations rather than by the government.

The term appears most often in discussions of conservation, hunting rights, and land use policy, where the distinction between private and public lands determines who may access the property and what activities are permitted: Much of the wildlife habitat in the region exists on private lands.

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State-held natural areas

public domain · government lands · federal lands · state lands · communal lands

access and use rights

private landspublic lands

State-held natural areas

common lands · public parks · public spaces · wilderness areas

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