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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Defense is a surprisingly large use of land. How is that? Can anyone explain the most land intensive uses of the Armed Forces? Like tank training areas maybe?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Tobacco is still at least 2,000x too big.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

God I miss living in the west.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think the graphic would be better if some of the data were nested by size and relationship. IOW Agricultural land would have grazing, food production, feed production, etc. in decreasing size nested over an area. Might give greater sense of how much land is used for ag. Same for forestry; Forestry, parks, commercial logging, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

hugging the west coast, there are tons of cow farms, and a small part of cali is for the military, SEAL training.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

No, we use it to vote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This makes my eyes bleed

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah Maine is so well known for it's urban housing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

And Nevada for its timberland.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

is Alaska included? or are we just ignored because of our small population?

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