Humans, always ruining something...

CRAZY!! Look at all that agriculture!! Look at it! It is amazing to go out and look at the world aroud us and to try to image what it used to be back then. Currently, urban land cover accounts for over 90% of the land cover in Upper Stroubles Creek Watershed, whereas agricultural was the dominate land cover in 1937 (about 75% land cover). On the other hand, it is interesting to note the lack of forest cover in this image due to the complete flattening of land in the past for agriculture. So, even though urbanization is the present day man-made issue, there were other issues in the past, such as forest clear-cuts.