Arizona is probably the most opposite state of Hawaii. Their topography, their climate, their agriculture, and their population are far from similar. However, both Hawaii and Arizona are both under heavy government land ownership. Roughly half of all land in Hawaii is government owned, with the state, not the federal government, controlling 80 percent of that land. Most of it is in the agriculturally less desirable portions of the islands, and the bulk is in forest reserves and conservation districts. Most federal lands are primarily in national parks on the Big Island and Maui, or in military holdings on Oahu and Kahoolawe. (http://countrystudies.us/united-states/geography-23.htm)
This map of land ownership in Arizona shows that most of the land is under government control. The red being the only privately owned land in the state. The white represents federal land, the blue state land, and the brown, a major portion, tribal land.
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