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Bringing Conservation From the Countryside
to Your Backyard
From the countryside to
your backyard
A tradition of caring for our natural resources
 Farmers and
ranchers, and many homeowners, are making progress in natural resource
protection. You can join their conservation tradition, right in your own
backyard.
There are nearly 2 billion acres of land in the United States. About
70 percent of that land is privately owned, and care of that land is in
the hands of those who live and work on it.
Most of that land, 1.4 billion acres, is managed by farmers
and ranchers. More than 92 million acres of land - an area the size of
California - is privately developed and much of it is tended by
homeowners.
Farmers and ranchers use conservation plans to help them
apply practices that meet their production objectives and protect soil, water,
air, plant, and animal resources. You may want to develop a plan for your
own backyard to help you apply conservation measures that fit your needs.
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