Missourian here, pretty accurate
How about parking lots
It is missing oil and gas extraction. There are 23 million acres under lease for O&G, roughly 50% in active production. That is 1/6th the area dedicated to pasturelands, so it should definitely show up on the map.
The surface impact is very minimal, especially for horizontal wells. You still have to lease all of the area that you’re drilling under, but you would never know from the surface that it was happening. For a 1,280 acre leased drilling unit, there might only be at most 5 acres of actual equipment on the surface.
Timberland has certainly diversified his portfolio since he stopped making music
Absolutely ridiculous. People who eat animal products while pretending to be in favor of “environmentalism” are absolutely laughable
Would suburban housing fall under Urban or Rural housing?
Wild that golf is so land intensive it makes it onto the map!
Most cow pasture land is unsuitable for farming. Too hilly/rocky/whatever reason.
There’s a difference between difficult and unsuitable.
I get the point you’re going for, but “pasture land” is literally just public grasslands, and they’re pretty much the only truly public places left in the states.
Arkansas grows primarily rice and soybeans, so I don’t understand why it says anything about cows. There are some cow farms, sure, but by and large it is rice and soybeans. And honestly, it’s mostly rice. They grow almost half of the country’s crop.
This is just a visual representation of how big each category is in the US, not where it’s located geographically. Cow pastures are spread across the entire country but if we combined them into one big square this is how it would look.
Does this force all 50 states into the contiguous 48? Like how much does Alaska contribute to the acreage here?
Crazy how much timberland we have here though vs farm… cattle
