The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service reports that between 1997 and 2001, 2.2 million acres were lost to development each year -- RODEO RAMBLINGS

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Date Posted: 08:02:40 11/25/07 Sun
Author: Hap
Subject: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service reports that between 1997 and 2001, 2.2 million acres were lost to development each year

I saw this on TV and they said bewteen 1987 and some year I can't remember, 187 acres per hour were being lost to develpoment. It was something like 15 or 20 year span where that happened.
Some of the cities I know of are gonna be in a jam some day because they out grew their water supply.
It would be hard to get by without oil and gas but it would be imposable to get by without water.

http://www.elcr.org/

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I would guess that between 2001 and 2004 it was even higher on a yearly bases. They still buying some land down here, but mostly fencing it in and putting cows on it, until the market picks back up. They have done that with two 40 acre old groves that had growed up to nothing but bushes just this month. They were bought by developers and with cows they can get the ag tax instead of the high prices speculation tax. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:51:01 11/26/07 Mon

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