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Re: Urban sparwl increases


In a message dated 12/8/99 11:06:40 AM, rforce@moscow.com writes:

<< NEARLY 16 MILLION ACRES OF LAND WERE CONVERTED TO DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN
1992 AND 1997 -- A RATE OF 3.2 MILLION PER YEAR, THE AGRICULTURE
DEPARTMENT SAID MONDAY. BETWEEN 1982 AND 1992, THE DEVELOPMENT RATE WAS
1.4 MILLION ACRES A YEAR. >>

According to my data, the United States is comprised of 2,315,817,600 acres.  
Therefore, 16 million acres converted in five years is 69 hundredths of one 
percent, or 138 thousandths of one per cent per year.
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