[PCA] NEWS: Grasslands Get Squeezed As Another 1.6 Million Acres Go Into Crops

[Kwong, Olivia]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/22/255732264/grasslands-get-squeezed-as-another-1-6-million-acres-go-into-crops

Grasslands Get Squeezed As Another 1.6 Million Acres Go Into Crops
by Dan Charles
December 22, 2013 5:05 AM

As the year winds down, we here at NPR are looking at a few key numbers
that explain the big trends of 2013.

Today's number: 1.6 million.

That's 1.6 million acres -- about the area of the state of Delaware.

That's how much land was removed this year from the federal Conservation
Reserve Program, or CRP, which pays farmers to keep land covered with
native grasses or sometimes trees.

See the link above for the full article text.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.plantconservation.org/pipermail/native-plants_lists.plantconservation.org/attachments/20131224/2460565a/attachment.html>