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Land Use| Land Use from an environmental standpoint encompasses numerous activities and issues. For this website we have divided the Land Use issues into the three most common categories outside of urban areas: 1) agriculture including farming and ranching, 2) minerals including mining and oil and gas exploration and development, and 3) parks and recreation including national and state parks, wilderness areas, national forests, deserts and other open spaces, and recreational activities that typically take place within these areas. Any use of the land has some environmental impact, which often puts people into two opposite camps: those that want to preserve the land from human encroachment, pollution and any environmentally sensitive activities, and those that seek to exploit the land and its resources for its economic value while also maintaining practical standards for environmental compliance. |
Latest Land Use Content  | | Article Details: Thousands of farmers are taking their fields out of the government’s biggest conservation program, which pays them not to cultivate. They are spurning guaranteed annual payments for a chance to cash in on the boom in wheat, soybeans, corn and other crops. Last fall, they took back as many acres as are in Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Environmental and hunting groups are warning that years of progress could soon be lost. | |
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|  | | Quote Details: According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent – than transport. - UN FAO | |
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|  | | Article Details: The livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent – than transport. And it accounts for 37 percent of all human-induced methane (23 times as warming as CO2), and 64 percent of ammonia, which contributes significantly to acid rain. And livestock use 30 percent of the earth’s entire land surface, with about 20 percent of pastures considered as degraded through overgrazing, compaction and erosion. | |
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|  | | Quote Details: Theodore Roosevelt was my hero and is to this day. He was responsible for the National Parks system, the crown jewels of America. They are $6 billion underfunded, they’re under enormous strain. | |
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