Say Goodbye To The West

Every 150 seconds a football game field's worth of natural opened upwardly seat down is lost to evolution inward the Western United States.

Scientists from the Conservation Science Partners bring analysed satellite imagery in addition to world information to gain upwardly one's hear how much seat down inward the West is beingness developed, at what charge per unit of measurement in addition to why this happening. You tin read to a greater extent than nearly their findings in addition to where seat down is beingness lost to evolution inward a novel study from the Center for American Progress.

You tin outpouring correct inward in addition to start exploring where seat down is beingness lost to evolution on the Disappearing West interactive map. If you lot desire to larn a petty to a greater extent than nearly the reasons why this seat down is beingness developed in addition to why it is of import to protect natural seat down in addition to hence you lot mightiness desire to offset read the Center for America Progress' The Disappearing West article.

The map presents a choropleth stance of the Western USA showing how much seat down has been lost to evolution inward every county betwixt 2001 in addition to 2011. If you lot press the 'Local' push you lot tin stance a heat-map of the same data, providing a to a greater extent than localized view. Press the 'State' push in addition to you lot tin stance a choropleth layer showing the total of seat down lost inward each state.

The map likewise includes a timeline which allows you lot to direct a dissimilar yr to meet how much seat down was lost from 2001 until your chosen year.