Data Is Beautiful

This can't be right. Where are all the impenetrable walls of swine?

God I miss living in the west.

Defense is a surprisingly large use of land. How is that? Can anyone explain the most land intensive uses of the Armed Forces? Like tank training areas maybe?

Tobacco is still at least 2,000x too big.

I think the graphic would be better if some of the data were nested by size and relationship. IOW Agricultural land would have grazing, food production, feed production, etc. in decreasing size nested over an area. Might give greater sense of how much land is used for ag. Same for forestry; Forestry, parks, commercial logging, etc.

No, we use it to vote.

This makes my eyes bleed

hugging the west coast, there are tons of cow farms, and a small part of cali is for the military, SEAL training.

Yeah Maine is so well known for it's urban housing

is Alaska included? or are we just ignored because of our small population?