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Originally Posted by weasel

I have a few govt maps, and I've been looking at claiming and whatnot. I can't patent it even if I claim land, since the BLM has refused to issue patents on claims for yet another year (12 now). So then I got to thinking, is there any reason I can't "stand upon" land identified as "public land" or "national forestry land?" It has no title, and no one has had a previous claim.
Can the government even own the land in the first place?

More than likely your land has a patent number... all you need do is assert your rights in that patent for your particlular piece of it as an assign.

We don't "patent" land... we just assert our rights in the patent that already exists.

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