The Heinz Center's State of the Nation's Ecosystems
ecosystem: Farmlands
indicator Name: Soil Erosion: water
page # in printed report: 100
location on page: lower
data source: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Coverage: lower 48 states; data cover cropland and Conservation Reserve Program lands, but not pasture.
notes: please see technical notes for further details on accessing these data from their original source; this data table comes from a specific graphic in The State of the Nation's Ecosystems report (www.heinzctr.org/ecosystems)

units: % of croplands
Graph: Water Erosion Potential
  1982 1987 1992 1997
Least 30.7637 32.8387 37.8073 39.6093
Moderate 38.9831 39.1259 38.4474 38.7592
Most 30.2533 28.0356 23.7452 21.6315