Wetlands
Losses in the United States
1780's to 1980's
Figure 5
LAND IN THE UNITED STATES, 1985
(Courtesy of U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service.) Frayer et al. estimated that 87 percent of the wetland losses from the mid-1950's to the mid-1970's were due to agricultural conversion.
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