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Third of states with MOST

per capita land consumption

are NOT states with greatest sprawl

State

Rank: largest per capita land consump-tion

Rank of 24: total land lost (in thousands of acres)

N. Dakota

#1

#23 (58,000)

Wyoming

#2

#22 (94,000)

S. Dakota

#3

#18 (122,000)

Montana

#4

#17 (154,000)

Kansas

#5

#14 (221,000)

Nebraska

#6

#21 (94,000)

New Mexico

#7

#10 (378,000)

Idaho

#8

#15 (205,000)

National Average

(506,000)

SOURCE: "1997 National Resources Inventory"

(U.S. Department of Agriculture)

All but one of top-third per capita land consumption are in bottom-half of total land lost

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