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First Professional Paper describing results from the Land Cover Trends project completed

Status and Trends of Land Change in the Western United States 1973-2000 covers 30 ecological regions in the Western United States and is the most detailed and comprehensive assessment of the rates and types of land-use and land-cover change ever produced for the region. This Professional Paper represents the culmination of many years of hard work from a great number of USGS staff and represents a significant contribution to our understanding of land change dynamics in the U.S.

Reports covering the Great Plains, Midwest, and Eastern U.S. are currently underway and should follow soon.

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• Soulard, CE, Sleeter, BM, 2012, Late twentieth century land-cover change in the basin and range ecoregions of the United States, Regional Environmental Change DOI 10.1007/s10113-012-0296-3..
  
  
• Auch, R.F., Sayler, K.L., Napton, D.E., Taylor, J.L., and Brooks, M.S., 2011, Ecoregional differences in late-20th-century land-use and land-cover change in the U.S. northern Great Plains, Great Plains Research v. 21 (Fall): 231-243.
  
  
• Drummond, M.A., Loveland T.R., 2010, Land-use pressure and a transition to forest-cover loss in the eastern United States, Bioscience, v.60,4, pp.286-298.
  
  
• Napton, D.E., Auch, R.F., Headley, R., Taylor, J.L., 2010, Land changes and their driving forces in the Southeastern United States, Regional Environmental Change, v.10,1, pp.37-53.
  
  
• Sleeter, B. M., T. Wilson, C. Soulard, and J. Liu, 2010, Estimation of Late 20th Century Landscape change in California, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, DOI 10.1007/s10661-010-1385-8