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This website was developed by Texas Cooperative Extension for the dissemination of information from a joint project with American Farmland Trust.

Project Purpose: This project was undertaken to provide critical data and analysis of Texas land trends pertaining to ecological, economic, and demographic trends on Texas 144 million acres of privately owned land. Data was collected, combined and analyzed to provide baseline data on the current status of the Texas landscape. This trend data and analysis can be used to explore the current landuse trends and implications as well as hypothesize the future trends and landuse's under different ecological, political, demographic, and economic impacts.

Project Products: There are four products produced as a result of this project

1. Website - this is the current website that you are visiting. It is developed to provide a starting point for data exploration. It contains a data mining page that contains trend data for economic and demographic text data. In addition, it contains a GIS mapping page that spatially depicts the trends as well as allows the user to layer other data and information onto the trend data to seek a better understanding of the trends.
2. Stand-alone data tool - this tool is developed in Microsoft Access and is used as a stand-alone data tool to be installed on desktop computers. It contains more detailed data on land use trends and enables a user to take a more expansive look at market, economic, and demographic forces driving Texas land use.
3. Reports - several reports were produced as a result of this project. Follow the links at the bottom of the page to download and browse the reports.
4. Simulation model - an exploritory simulation model was developed to produce hypothetical land use trends and changes depending on different scenarios. This model allowed for the simulation of political impacts on the current status of land use patterns. More information about the model can be found through the reports and from the contact information for the project team.