One of my projects made the front page of the Yakima newspaper. Since the paper tends to paywall these things in short order, I thought the blog would make a handy archive.

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service has posted state-by-state results of their Natural Resources Inventory (NRI). The report depicts wetland gains and losses, soil erosion, farmland loss for the 48 contiguous United States through 2003. These numbers look pretty encouraging. It will be interesting to see if they continue this way in 2004.