Land owned and managed by the government provides hunting and non-consumptive wildlife related recreation opportunities for millions of Americans. This report summarizes and discusses the extent of use of public land for wildlife related recreation based on results of the 1985 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. The next section consists of estimates of hunting on public and private land for the nation as a whole and for each of the 50 states. The third section compares the 1985 results with those from earlier surveys. The fourth section consists of a discussion of the sociodemographic characteristics of those who use public land for hunting and comparisons with those who do not in order to determine if there are systematic differences between the two groups. The fifth section presents 1985 results for nonconsumptive wildlife related recreation on public lands, again both nationally and on a state-by-state basis, information that was not available from previous surveys.