Sprawl crawl
Friday, 26 October 2007
April 2006 (no, the drought’s not so bad the trees have no leaves).
Clever (perhaps) title, but it’s not a crawl…. According to the Georgia Conservancy:
Georgia ranks 3rd, behind Texas and Florida, in the amount of farm land and open space converted to development.
I not sure if they mean as a percentage of land in the state or sheer number of acres (the truths and subterfuges of statistics…). Either way (and I think it must be the latter), this is scary. Those are all big states, so it’s a massive land area.
Some years ago I tried to get a handle on the impact development has had on archaeological sites here in Georgia, which is particularly rich in prehistoric occupation. Look here if you’re interested. If you’re really interested, there’s a 2005 update (unfortunately, not available online as near as I can tell) by Steve Kowalewski in SGA’s Early Georgia, summarized in this press release.