Land use in the US : dataisbeautiful

[-] errer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Uh where the hell are roads on this chart?

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[-] rusticus1773@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] squiblet@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

yeah, I'm pretty sure there's some agriculture going on in California, which produces 50% of the nation's produce. Florida too ("landowning families" isn't a use?). Also we eat corn from the central Midwest, and lots of wheat from Dakotas and Minnesota.

[-] AzzyDev@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Don’t forget pumpkin! The Midwest produces much of the world’s pumpkin, I think Illinois alone makes about 85%, but I may be wrong on that figure.

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[-] terabytes@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have to tell you, there's plenty of farmed land on the entire west coast this map does not depict. Less than half of the areas labeled timberlands are forested, as a generous estimate.

Edit: as the comments under this state, I just didn't understand what was being represented and how.

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl -4 points 1 year ago

I hate, hate, HATE this. It implies the main land-use is the only use. Do people in the Midwest simply commute 2,000 miles a day, since that's where the housing is? This belongs in c/UglyInaccurateData...

[-] Snapz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're mis, mis MISUNDERSTANDING this map.

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[-] jimrob4@midwest.social -5 points 1 year ago

Wow, look how much more land would be available if we just stopped eating cows!!!! /s

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[+] reddig33@lemmy.world -6 points 1 year ago

Central Texas is mostly used for defense? Since when? Everywhere I look around it’s tech.

[+] survivorseason44@midwest.social -7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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”

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