Delaware Land Use
While northern Delaware is highly urbanized much of the southern portion of the state is covered with cropland mostly corn for meat chickens and dairy farming.
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Land Cover in Montgomery County
Montgomery County is a an largely agricultural county in mid-Mohawk Valley, home to Amsterdam and Fonda. See also the NCLD graph I posted above. Map key. For more information see mrlc.gov.
Date of Forest Disturbance in Catskill
You can show the key by clicking on the link above and scrolling down. Many of these changes are small, so you will need to scroll in to see them.
Land Use – Area Around Malone
While it's been a few years since I've been up around Malone, I was surprised to see how much of the land immediately around the village of Malone is good soils used for crop production, mostly silage and hay-ledge for dairy. Get north and west of Malone, you have more wetlands and forested areas whose shallow sandy soils have been depleted both due to historical agriculture practices and timber cutting for the iron-smelting industry at the turn of the history.
Harrisonburg, VA Land Use
Harrisonburg, Virginia is located the heart of the Shenandoah Valley and is a sprawling college town, surrounded by rolling farm country, much of which is used for crop production -- corn for chicken, cattle and hogs but also a lot of forages. Heading to the west into West Virginia, you leave the farm country away for the hills and mountains of West Virginia.
Utica – Rome Land Use
South of Utica you will find many acres of cultivated land, while north of the city there is some cultivated acres, but much of the land is of poorer quality and used for timber production, grazing, and hay production. Even further north you get into the foothills of the Adirondack Park and it's highly forested. To the west of Rome, you can see the marshy lands along the Wood Creek and the Barge Canal, along with the confers of the Rome Sand Plains, a pine barriens.
Land Use – Northern Cortland County
Northern Cortland County has some high hills that are heavily forested, while the valleys are often high quality, cultivated soils used mostly for dairying.