Regional variation of the proportion of major land uses in the conterminous US.

<p>The relative extent of 7 regions is depicted by the size of the pie-charts: Pacific (CA, OR, WA); Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY); North central (IA, KS, MN, MO, ND, NE, SD); South central (AR, LA, OK, TX), Great Lakes (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI), Northeast (PA and northeastern states), Southeast (DE, KY, WV and southern states). Land in productive uses dominated the major land uses for all regions but the Northeast, which was narrowly dominated by built-up uses. The proportion of land in recreation and conservation land uses exceeded 10% for the Pacific, Mountain, and Northeast regions. Note: “water” is not a land use per se, and includes both water and wetland cover types.