Colcom Foundation Spotlights U.S. Land Loss and Species Decline
Land is finite. That observation sits at the heart of much of Colcom Foundation's environmental analysis, which tracks decades of development, agricultural expansion, and habitat loss against a backdrop of a steadily growing U.S. population.The data the foundation presents are cumulative and specific. By 1990, roughly 133,000 square miles of U.S. land had been consumed by human-made structures and surfaces roads, parking lots, buildings, and...