TEXAS LAND CONVERSION LOSSES – PART 1

Texas had a net loss of nearly 1.1 million acres of privately owned farms, ranches and forests from 1997 to 2012, continuing the trend of rural land conversion and fragmentation in Texas.  Privately owned farms, ranches and forests account for 83% of the land in Texas and are increasingly threatened by suburbanization, rural development & land fragmentation driven by rapid population growth.  54% of the land conversion was related to development associated with population expansion in the state’s 25 highest growth rate counties.  CONTINUED IN NEXT BLOG