Funny things if there was regular controlled fire, there would have none wildfire...
I wonder how bad it'll get before we get some kind of prescribed burn policy. Smoky summers suuuuck. Having your house or town burn down in an out of control wildfire sucks even more.
They already exist all over the western US. In AZ the majority of smokey days come from prescription burns or natural fires that the forest service manage like a prescribed burn
It's not really the USA without Alaska (and other extracontinental territories, but their landmass probably isn't large enough to change anything).
Or is Alaska included, which would make the presentation of the data even more confusion as it wouldn't even be too scale.
What does idle/fallow mean for Michigan?
I assume it's stuck in a court process, or in the process of transitioning to another status, or farmland without a crop, or maybe abandoned but the city can't pay to clear it or demo it yet, etc.
Its not location based. It just means the total amount of fallow lans in the contiguous US is about equal to Michigan.
100 people don't own Florida and more.
Idk didn't bother going around the pay wall just thought it looked cool. I'd guess the area of land that is idle/fallow is the size of michigan
California also uses their lands for wildfires, they even have a fire season now. Don't forget to give credit where credit is due!
I always knew Michigan was an unproductive POS /s
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot “food we eat”?
Field corn and soybeans are STRICTLY for animal (specifically cow, pig sheep and chicken) consumption. Food we eat is from California.
That makes no sense for Michigan at all. I’d imagine Michigan land use is mostly forest (so much national forest/protected wetlands here), then agriculture, then urban space (Metro Detroit is most of this), then a little pasture. The only way “idle” makes sense to me is if any protected forest/natural land is considered “idle”
Central Texas is mostly used for defense? Since when? Everywhere I look around it’s tech.
Apparently this doesn't show the locations of the separate industries, rather the landmass usage of said industries.
Which means it’s a bad diagram.
I agree, I was confused at first too.
Nice, guess I'm on team Food we eat!
Wow, look how much more land would be available if we just stopped eating cows!!!! /s
Wow, look how much more land would be available if we just stopped eating cows!!!!
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