The Heinz Center's State of the Nation's Ecosystems
ecosystem: Farmlands
indicator Name: Soil Erosion: wind
page # in printed report: 100
location on page: Top
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: Wind Erosion Potential
  1982 1987 1992 1997
Least 60.1505 59.6947 63.5539 65.4718
Moderate 17.5496 17.1312 19.3575 19.1705
Most 22.3 23.1743 17.0885 15.3577