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Land Change in the Western United States
December 11, 2012 | USGS

“U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1794–A is the first in a four-volume series on the status and trends of the Nation’s land use and land cover, providing an assessment of the rates and causes of land-use and land-cover change in the Western United States between 1973 and 2000.”


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