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Updated 15 December 2006

OUR CHANGING PLANET
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program
for Fiscal Year 2007

A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and
The Subcommittee on Global Change Research
A Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 2007 Budget

Figure 25.  Land-Use Changes at the County Level from1950 to 2000.

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These products were generated using censuses of population, housing, and agriculture: (top) change in population density; (middle) change in land area settled at "exurban densities" (i.e., 1 house per 1 to 40 acres); and (bottom) change in percentage of cropland. Credit: D.G. Brown, University of Michigan (reproduced from Ecological Applications with permission from the Ecological Society of America).

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