3M ag acres/year lost.
An average of three million acres per year of agricultural and forest land have been lost to development each year since 1992, according to according to
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1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.
2. In keeping with: according to instructions.
3. a report by Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickman (born November 24, 1944) is an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Fourth Congressional District of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. . This loss rate is double that of the ten-year period 1982-1992.
Glickman also said that nearly two billion tons of soil has eroded into US waterways The list of waterways is a link page for any river, canal, estuary or firth.
International waterways
- Danish straits
- Great Belt
- Oresund
- Bosporus
- Dardanelles
each year from 1992 to 1997. He has called for a national conference on conservation this year.
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