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Land-use Conflicts with Natural Vegetation in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Jeffrey M. Klopatek ,
Richard J. Olson ,
Craig J. Emerson  and
Jan L. Joness
Jeffrey M. Klopatek
Affiliation:
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, U.S.A.
Richard J. Olson
Affiliation:
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, U.S.A.
Craig J. Emerson
Affiliation:
Computer Sciences Division, Union Carbide Corporation Nuclear Division, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, U.S.A.
Jan L. Joness
Affiliation:
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, U.S.A.
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There exists no current inventory of how much of the United States is occupied by natural vegetation, nor how much area is covered by particular plant communities. In this study, the potential existing vegetation-cover of the United States was determined by using a computer algorithm that was developed to subtract extant landuse data from the potential natural vegetation. This was done on a county-by-county basis for the 48 conterminous States.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1979 , pp. 191 - 199
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1979

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